The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission urges consumers of micromobility products – including e-bikes, e-scooters, self-balancing scooters or hoverboards, and e-unicycles – not to use chargers that are marketed as “universal” or suitable with general categories of micromobility devices to avoid fires and injury or death, unless they’ve been tested... Read more →

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Horizon Card Services and its CEO Robert Kane Friday for tricking consumers into signing up for its expensive membership credit card. Horizon’s credit card, which could come with almost $300 in annual fees on a card with a $500 credit limit, could only be... Read more →

The lengths to which Republican governors are going to create fiefdoms in which they can carry out their conservative ideas is mind-boggling. Questionable policies on gender identity, abortion, guns, book banning, critical race theory, elections, immigration, and more are increasingly troubling. Then I read on the Public Citizen website that... Read more →

Check to see if your child or grandchild has this toy, take a photo of it, destroy it, and get a refund. Fischer-Price is recalling the dumbbell toy sold with the Baby Biceps Gift Set. The gray caps on the end of the dumbbell toy can come off, posing a... Read more →

Labor Day these days is mostly about beaches, barbecues, ballgames, and shopping. About 67 percent of Americans plan to celebrate Labor Day, with more than 210 million having a barbecue and thousands going to college football games. In the past, however, workers marched. The holiday’s roots can be traced back... Read more →

After fires, property damage, and burns, Trader Joe’s is recalling about 653,000 mango tangerine scented candles. The candle flame can spread from the wick to the wax causing a larger than expected flame, posing a fire risk. The firm has received 14 reports of incidents involving high flames with the... Read more →

Today is Women’s Equality Day, the day commemorating the adoption of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, which guaranteed women the right to vote. For Women’s Equality Day, the U.S. League of Women Voters and league chapters from 50 states and the District of Columbia are calling... Read more →

Have you heard of “personalized nutrition?” It’s an approach to dietary advice that uses tests of a person’s genes, blood and other body fluids, and gastrointestinal tract, as well as questionnaires, to develop individualized nutritional recommendations. Personalized nutrition’s global value was estimated at $12 billion in 2022, and it’s projected... Read more →

Most consumers are confused about the new rules related to compensation for realtors in the home buying transaction and the changes are generating lots of headlines. The new rules offer great new opportunities for consumers to save money. How realtors are paid has always been confusion and, while valuable, home... Read more →

About a dozen times I’ve written about price gouging being one of the biggest drivers of inflation, along lamenting about how politicians weren’t talking about it. President Biden took up the topic recently, and Kamala Harris, vice president and the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, announced it Friday as part... Read more →