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 6 On Tuesday, Union minister for housing and urban affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri, released a report prepared by Moneylife Foundation to document the efficacy of Real Estate Regulation and Development Act, 2016 (RERA) in India from the consumer perspective. The research project, made possible due to the support of Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC) and its top management team, highlighted that RERA has been a game changing legislation that has imposed discipline, transparency and accountabi...

>> from a consumer perspective, the paper products have an impact. so much pulp is made in china. many consumers have seen an increase. >> wal-mart has yet to say which products have seen the most impact from tariffs. they told reporters that were going to do everything we can to keep prices low. thats who we are. increased tariffs will lead to increases prices for customers. >> im sure if price goes up a little bit, ill worry. right now its on the back of my mind. >> were seeing over $10 millio...

Unions for the air traffic controllers and the tsa have urged their employees or union members do not strike. because they risk getting fired, and they risk putting their own pensions in some cases could be decades worth of a pension at risk. and so up until now thats been the official line. >> give me the consumer perspective here. if you have to fly somewhere today and its in or out of new york or the region, whats the advice? >> i think this -- my own opinion is we could be starting to see th...

And then when you have people on furlough, you know, you cant do all the things that have to be done and the vulnerabilities are real. i dont think the american people should be worried. >> dont freak out. >> dont freak out. but i think its irresponsible to put the fda in this position. i think that, you know, the american people really should care. its not just food safety, either. fda is an enormously important and unique government agency that is making a difference in all our lives every sin...

The current supreme court how do you think it will go? >> likely the way the amex case recently went 5-4 in apples favor. >> shepard: and do you find that to be the right decision personally? >> from a consumer perspective no and 31 state attorney generals agree and 31 states led by texas and we have an iowa democrat citing with the plaintiff in the consumers interest. >> well watch it. theres a snow form bringing blizzard conditions to the midwest and causing problems for travellers in a huge w...

More attractive than other folks in the marketplace? steve: it was a speculative piece. what is leading the "wall street journal" to think they might do that? >> there has been talk about this for literally years. whats more, amazon is already sort of in banking businesses. they have something called amazon go. kind of a debit card. then they also make loans to the retailers on website. inching their way closer and closer. started hearing at the "wall street journal" rumors that they might do th...

So, its nonsense to say that theres a great tragedy looming. >> well, joining us now to talk more about this is michael who was the u.s. trade representative in the obama administration. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> do you buy that argument? i mean, the coke can argument for all i can really call it there. im not so concerned about a coke can. i might be concerned about, say, an automobile or something very large that takes a lot of steel. >> well, thats right. most a...

>> melissa: are not trained to be debbie downer, im just trying to warn people about possible things out there. the one thing is possibility that we see interest rates continue to pick up here. >> that seems like a slam dunk for next week. i think the job report would have to have been horrible. yes, well they expected. if you have debt, your debt will become more expensive. >> melissa: other than that, when interest rates go up, i could signal to more optimism. if they think mortgages are legit...

When i asked them where, they did not know what i meant. i just said twitter. lets get real. if we know this is happening, it is happening abroad from a legal perspective are the ramifications and going forward, what can really be done about it. from a consumer perspective, it is important to know the source. people just need to be aware that is occurring and make a determination of what type of news sources they are consuming. i think that the nation needs to define what those read lines are. w...

Is necessary in order for this to be successful n ohio, only 19% are between ages 19-34. its very serious issue. insurance companies from a will we be here but from a consumer perspective. pay claims when they come due. >> young people goring to pay premiums then sicker people and older people will be living off younger people. if younger people dont sign up, its not enough money to cover it. then what happens? >> well, premiums continue to go up. you know? when they can. unfortunately were very...