Consumer protection

of monopoly and preserve competition as an effective regulator of business. The Federal Trade Commission enforces a variety of federal antitrust and consumer protection laws. The Commission seeks to

marketing strategies, it is essential to appreciate some of the limitations cited in this chapter. However, it is equally imporant to appreciate the ethical dilemmas that these limitations present to the financial services marketer. The abuse of the consumers' inability to process the necessary information when evaluating a financial service is not only unethical, but in certain cases, it may violate regulations and result in legal repercussions. It is therefore essential for a financial services marketer

labelling in affecting consumer purchase decision; (5; 5 marks) Labelling is defined as displays an information on the package to identify the product or brand (1). Labelling is a tool of communication which provides the useful features to consumers (2). Consumers can direct get the details of product as quality, ingredients and price without using or tasting the product. The purpose of labelling is describing and giving necessary information about the product to consumers (6). The valuable information

Advertising Restrictions The most relevant types of advertising restrictions arise from topics like drug and alcohol consumption and childhood obesity, among many other controversial topics. Aside from the United States these efforts to restrict advertising of specific kinds are much more prominent in other countries. The United States is known for its freedom of speech and expression, the United States lives greatly by that, but in some aspects of life and business, there needs to be restriction

unfettered competition as the rule of trade.” (The Antitrust Laws). Twenty four years later in 1914, Congress passed two more Anti-Trust Laws: the Federal Trade Commission Act, which created the Federal Trade Commission whose aim is to protect American consumers, and the Clayton act, which fills in any loopholes in the Sherman Act. Ultimately, these three Anti Trust Acts regulate three core problems within the market: restricting the creation of cartels, restricting the “mergers and acquisitions of organizations

BSA provider network in the region of Amarillo, Tyler, TX who is believed to be respondent under section 5 of Federal Trade Commission Act where the Respondent has exhibited Anticompetitive Conduct in the market and which incurred the reduction of consumer benefits in the healthcare market. Upon being proved guilty of allegations, Federal Trade Commission along with the help of Office of Texas Attorney General purposed few judgements in the form of consent order which involves settlements purposes

Based on the question given, it required us to discuss about the free movement of goods. Article 3(3) illustrated that ‘…the Union shall establish an internal market and shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy…’ Internal market is a single market that free movement of goods, persons, capital is assured, and in which citizens are free to live, work, study and do business. Goods mean anything

In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Dodd-Frank Act is a bill that was put into place to protect Consumers, Investors, Businesses and many other business related sources from repeating another financial crisis. The main purpose of the Dodd-Frank Act is to highlight all the flaws from the previous financial crisis and put preventions into place to reframe from the loss of 8 million jobs to happen again. Throughout I will highlight important proposals

preliminary ruling under Article 177 of the EEC Treaty for the interpretation of Council directive 85/577/EEC. The directive is aimed at Consumer protections in contracts which are negotiated away from business premises (OJ 1985 L 372, pg. 31, hereinafter “the directive”). The main question was if the directive could be relied on in preceding’s between a trader and a consumer. On January 19th, 1989 Miss Faccini Dori and Interdiffusion SRL concluded a contract for an English Language correspondence court

For 2014, this particular institutions average loan amount for consumer purpose loans was $230,000. The interest rate was 4.80 percent, average cost of funds spread was 2.32 percent, average cost of funds spread of 2.32 percent, and fee average was approximately $1,000. In comparison, the non-consumer purpose loan average was $241,000. The interest rate was 4.73 percent, average cost of funds spread of 2.90 percent, and fee average was approximately $1,000. So as you can see, the spread on the