Toll Discounts and Festive Price Controls to Ease Public Burden for Chinese New Year, Says Fahmi PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian government will introduce toll discounts and enforce the Festive Season Maximum Price Scheme (SHMMP) in conjunction with the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations to help ease financial pressure on the public. Communications Minister and Madani Government spokesperson Fahmi Fadzil said the decision reflects the Cabinet’s commitment to safeguarding consumer welfare during periods …

Toll Discounts and Festive Price Controls to Ease Public Burden for Chinese New Year, Says Fahmi #ChineseNewYear #TollDiscounts #FestiveSeason #PriceControls #ConsumerWelfare

Tariffs Could Slash U.S. Beer Consumer Welfare by Up to $306 Million, Study Finds Large multinational brewers stand to gain as small craft breweries face shrinking market share and rising costs under new tariffs.

FYI: Tariffs Could Slash U.S. Beer Consumer Welfare by Up to $306 Million, Study Finds #BeerIndustry #CraftBeer #Tariffs #ConsumerWelfare #MultinationalBrewers

Tariffs Could Slash U.S. Beer Consumer Welfare by Up to $306 Million, Study Finds Large multinational brewers stand to gain as small craft breweries face shrinking market share and rising costs under new tariffs.

Tariffs Could Slash U.S. Beer Consumer Welfare by Up to $306 Million, Study Finds #BeerIndustry #CraftBeer #Tariffs #ConsumerWelfare #Brewing

Consumer advocate urges lawmakers to implement guardrails on financial product regulations Advocate calls for protective regulations to prevent consumer exploitation in financial transactions.

Ohio lawmakers are stepping up to protect consumers from the hidden fees of Earned Wage Access products that are draining the finances of low-income individuals.

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#OH #FinancialRegulation #CitizenPortal #ConsumerWelfare #EthicalFinance

Photograph of a red brick wall. By Seyi Ariyo under a free Unsplash License: https://bit.ly/41LEkMS.

The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood

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to remedy these issues, the revised Guidelines should: (i) define #competitiononthemerits in line with the #consumerwelfare objective (ie conduct is competition off the merits if it ultimately harms intermediary/final consumers) and/or define #exclusionaryeffects as those to the detriment of

The image shows peasants working the land, and a boss with a 'robot' head forcing them to work. The image is connected with the post, which says that: "AI CAN'T do your job, but an AI salesman CAN convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI."

"#ConsumerWelfare supposed that we could somehow separate our identities as "workers" from our identities as "shoppers" – that our stagnating wages and worsening conditions ceased mattering to us when we clocked out at 5PM (or, you know, 9PM) and bought a $0.99 […]

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