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In December, the average cost for a dozen large Grade A eggs in U.S. cities hit $4.25, up $1.79 from a year earlier.

Owens and Fox News' Tucker Carlson are putting the blame on companies, while one farm organization has a completely different viewpoint.

While government agencies have begun to recognize the need to combat crypto fraud, it's clear that the frequency of cryptocurrency fraud is outpacing the ability of consumer watchdogs to police it.

Almost one third of customers who applied for some of Credit Karma's "pre-approved" offers were denied, alleged the FTC.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against data broker Kochava for allegedly selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.

"Scammers might promise a loan forgiveness program—that most people won't qualify for," the FTC recently warned.

President Joe Biden wrote a letter to the FTC requesting that it "bring all of the Commission's tools to bear" to investigate reports of formula price gouging.

"TurboTax is bombarding consumers with ads for 'free' tax filing services, and then hitting them with charges when it's time to file," said the FTC.

"Equifax lost the personal data of almost every single adult [in the U.S.]," said one Redditor, reminding readers of the company's 2017 data breach.

"These fraudsters know exactly how to play on people's emotions," a U.S. attorney investigating the scams warned.

"Social media was far more profitable to scammers in 2021 than any other method of reaching people," the Federal Trade Commission said.

Two members of Congress from opposite ends of the political spectrum said they agreed Facebook should be broken up.

An antitrust U.S. attorney stated that they were seeing "a truly unprecedented explosion" of merger requests.

Lina Khan said she will move "with a fierce sense of urgency" as her agency pursues antitrust actions.

"Our country depends on competition to drive progress, innovation and prosperity," Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division said.

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote also ordered Friday that "Pharma Bro" Shkreli pay a $64.4 million fine.

The lawsuit argues Meta should pay its 44 million British users compensation for taking all their personal and private data between 2015 and 2019.

The Federal Trade Commission warned about "opportunistic scammers" who are taking "advantage of the spike in demand."

The FTC's misguided and dangerous action against better cancer screening will make lifechanging science less accessible to minorities.

The president asked the FTC to investigate whether Americans are paying more for gas "because of anti-competitive or otherwise potentially illegal conduct."

Today, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $3.413—more than a dollar higher than the average price one year ago.

The FTC said that one driver would receive over $28,000, while the average amount of 139,507 settlement checks and 1,621 PayPal payments was $422.

"Companies can't make unsupported health claims, no matter what form a product takes or what it supposedly prevents or treats," an FTC official said.

"Big Tech companies are eagerly expanding their empires to gain greater control and insight into our spending habits," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said.

"Fake reviews and other forms of deceptive endorsements cheat consumers and undercut honest businesses," said Samuel Levine of the FTC.

Now is not the time to let Big Tech run wild.

The congressman conceded to The Verge last week that he was wrong to believe "the market will take care of" creating competition within Silicon Valley.

Between October 2020 and May 2021, almost 7,000 people in the U.S. lost $80 million to cryptocurrency scammers.

Senator Roger Wicker's (R-Miss.) PRO-SPEECH Act, introduced last Thursday, takes a novel approach to one of the most pressing threats to our democracy: Big Tech's control of our political discussion.

Our government must not allow erratic, precedent-setting FTC malfeasance to unduly harm patients or the trust of the business community.