So much for trying to supplement your healthy lifestyle. Butala Emporium of Jackson Heights, NY is recalling eleven supplements because they contain elevated LEAD and MERCURY levels. If a child or pregnant woman is exposed to lead for weeks or months, then the expected damages would include problems with the central nervous system, learning disorders and developmental fetal defects. [...]
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Over-parenting, say researchers, is expensive and ineffective. Hands-on parenting is a good thing, right? Right! We didn’t have these kids so they could raise themselves, did we? No we did not. That’s why we’re only too happy to cultivate their every interest and — while we’re at it — introduce them to impressionism, [...]
Here's your big opportunity to hang up on an IRS agent. Scam of the hour - to celebrate tax season, perhaps - is a call from someone claiming to be from the IRS, says the Federal Trade Commission. Don't fall for it. The IRS will never call out of the blue to ask for payment. It won’t demand a specific [...]
The last thing you want to do in mourning is learn about investment laws. Brushing up on some basics now can make this easier later. If you inherit securities, you'll need to know the price of the security on the day the person died. That value is called the cost basis. You need to know this because when [...]
Sometimes online reviews are anything but objective, the government found. Today we slide "online reviews" into the vast column titled, "Don't Believe Everything You Read on the Internet." An automobile shipment company called AmeriFreight offered discounts and other cash incentives to customers for writing glowing online reviews, says the Federal Trade Commission. Giving people cash is an excellent way to [...]
We want our kids to make money, but should we tell them to get jobs or start businesses? Here's what you need to know. Should we tell our kids or teens to get jobs? Or should we encourage them to run small businesses and get a head start on the basics of achieving world [...]
For our kids to make money as adults later in life, they need confidence now. If you’ve been operating under the assumption that it's the kids with rich parents who get a head start in life, think again. It’s the kids who are most confident. People with high opinions of themselves as teenagers [...]
Myron Brilliant of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce The concept of Free Trade involves the word 'free' but Americans aren't giving anything away, says Myron Brilliant, executive vice president and head of international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Not jobs. Not sales. Rather, it's an concept that can only help us to make [...]
Gerber's claims that its formula can help prevent allergies are deceptive, says the FTC Gerber’s advertisements saying its Good Start Gentle infant formula reduces the risk of allergies are deceptive and are not backed by science, says the Federal Trade Commission, which filed in federal court an enforcement action to stop the company from [...]