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    very little policies with regards to advertisements. Some advertisements are regulated by the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communication Commission. The Federal Trade Commission ensures that advertisements are not “unfair” or “deceptive”. “Unfair” advertisements are advertisements that may initiate harm to consumers or advertisements that may violate a public policy. The Federal Trade Commission also views advertisements as “unfair” if they are “unethical”. According to the FTC Policy Statement

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    has been fighting with the court because they have been accused for breaking the Sherman anti-trust act. This act emphasizes on “every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," and any "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize”(Federal trade Commission, n.d, para. 2). In a monopolistic industry, companies have the power to make their own decisions on the prices they want their product to be because of the amount of power they have in the

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    Unlike SPAM where the Federal Trade Commission proved completely incompetent and consumers experienced a nearly 3000% increase in SPAM since the FTC put out their press releases that they were going to take a bite out of SPAM; it appears that the justice department is indeed making some headway on Identity Theft. Although did you know that Identity Stealing and SPAM are related in many ways, as there are folks stealing credit information from online Internet users through "key stroke" loggers, Phishing

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission In economic society, most people like to invest their fortunes in the capital market and security market. As more and more investors join in the investing market which is very complex and fascinating, and it can be successful. Unlike the deposits are hypothecated by the federal government, stocks, bonds and other securities can lose value in capital market because their no surety. So the security and exchange commission play an important role in the capital

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    The credit-reporting system and the major players I. Credit-reporting agencies Credit-reporting agencies are charged with collecting, storing and maintaining information on consumers and some businesses. The agencies primarily store debt repayment patterns of consumers, but some may also store and report debt repayment behavior of small businesses. Traditionally, credit-reporting companies have been known to focus on consumers’ payment patterns. However, in more re- cent times, it is becoming

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    William Mckinley which lead to Teddy Roosevelt to become the president of the United States. Roosevelt felt that it was the president’s job to set the tone of Congress in regards to political policies. Roosevelt brought the progressive movement to the federal level and implement his square deal, where workers and companies were treated fairly in disputes. A great example of this was during the coal miner’s strike of 1902, President Roosevelt called for both sides, the union and the owners, to negotiate

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    Evidently, “Advertisements are playing a major role even in healthcare products, which creates an awareness as well as impact in the minds of the consumers” (Lilly & Kavitha, 2014, page.367). In 1975, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established the antitrust law that allows the healthcare industry to participate for the first time in the competitive and aggressive marketplace; earlier years this practice was considered unethical among the healthcare industry that at that time was labeled as a

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    colorless, non-toxic, non-corrosive and non-flammable form of methane. “The first liquefied natural gas plant was built in West Virginia in 1912” (Dominion). The LNG was first produced in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939. In the 1950s and 1960s, the ocean-going trade in international LNG began. In 1969, the first LNG terminal and commercial liquefaction facility in the world in the United States began operations in Kenai, Alaska. The Kenai Peninsula LNG plant, operated by ConocoPhillips, is one of the oldest and

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    what they are looking for. In recent events, it has been proposed that Google has misled users and monopolized the market. In June 2011, Google was placed under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission or FTC (Ammori and Pelican, 2012) in violation of Section 2 of The Sherman Act and Section 5 of The Federal Trade Act (Hazan, 2013). The FTC's investigation focused on allegations that Google has been abusing its dominance in Internet search. Google's competitor’s say the company has been headlining

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    Week 4 Homework Spin Doctoring Which paths(s) to persuasion is/are present in the global warming case? Both paths can be present in this, or any case. The peripheral route could occur if people who are listing, watching or discussing the global warming case are conserved with cues, such as fear of the ice caps melting. This route can occur when people are induced by incidental cues, such as fear, or attractiveness, likeness to the listener, or desire, or any of the opposites (Myers,

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