So here’s the challenge: Mergers creating ever-larger airlines have had a very mixed impact on the passenger population. Bigness tends to ride right over the competition, reducing pressures to hold the line on fares and fees, eliminating routes, staff and services, etc. So Southwest wants to buy Air-Tran. Shouldn’t I be cool to the...
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The Consumerist – the Internet site owned by Consumer Reports – says it is continuing to get claims that consumers that some Wal-Mart store employees are improperly asking them for IDs when they use their MasterCard. The Consumerists says that executives at both Walmart and MasterCard confirmed that it is against both companies’ policies...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today his office is investigating defective foreclosure documents filed by GMAC/Ally Finance, Inc. in Connecticut and demanding the company freeze all foreclosures in the state. Blumenthal said in a prepared statement that he will also investigate whether other banks engaged in similar practices as has been reported in...