Covid-19 price rises still rampant on Amazon, research finds Sustained increases found on platform include a 300 per cent jump for a patio heater
Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 12:29 Updated: Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 12:39
Analysis published by the US Public Interest Research Group looked at 750 ‘essentia’ items sold on Amazon’s marketplace.
Hundreds of the essential products that have come to define pandemic living have sustained significant price increases on Amazon this year, with some jumping to many multiples of their original price, research suggests.
Analysis published by the US Public Interest Research Group, a non-partisan consumer advocacy organisation, looked at 750 “essential” items sold on Amazon’s marketplace, comparing their pre-pandemic prices to what customers paid for them at the end of 2020.
Biden to kill Keystone XL pipeline in fight on climate change, sources say
Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
Jan. 18, 2021
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WASHINGTON - Signaling his commitment to quickly confront climate change, President-elect Joe Biden is planning to move within days to quash the controversial multibillion-dollar Keystone XL pipeline, according to two individuals familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it had not been announced yet.
The politically symbolic pipeline, promoted by the oil and gas industry since it was first proposed about 15 years ago, has drawn opposition because it would carry tar sands, or heavy bitumen, from the boreal forests of northern Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The energy used in extracting these molasses-like petroleum supplies would contribute heavily to climate change.
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The CFPB’s Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law released its report making recommendations on how to improve consumer protection in the financial marketplace.
The CFPB created the Taskforce in October 2019 to examine ways to harmonize and modernize federal consumer financial laws. The Taskforce was charged with examining the existing legal and regulatory environment for consumers and financial services providers and making recommendations to the Bureau’s leadership for improving consumer financial laws and regulations.
The report consists of two volumes.
Volume I (798 pages) contains a historical and economic overview of consumer finance, covers the key principles guiding federal consumer financial law and policy, and discusses particular topics that the Taskforce considers important to the Bureau’s work.