| Volume 141 Number 63 |
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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Experiencing a natural disaster or weather emergency can be devastating and have long-term effects, but taking stock and developing a recovery plan can give you a sense of hope and purpose. Here are a few tips and links to resources to help make the task less burdensome. Click here for more.
Retailers Make Final Preparations for Black Friday
It's the final days before Black Friday, the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season, and the nation's top retailers are jockeying for position. At stake is potential record holiday spending. Among the deals designed to entice consumers is Best Buy's offer of a Toshiba 43-inch 4K smart TV for $129.99. Target plans to offer an Element 55-inch Smart 4K UHD TV for $199.99, available only in Target stores.
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Your Money
With smartphones playing a pivotal role in our daily lives, it only makes sense that they would eventually become an integral part of money management. Consumers who want to budget and track their spending can choose from many different apps. Here's a look at 10 budgeting apps that make it simple to save and manage your finances with ease. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Proposed law cracks down on robocalls. A bill has been introduced in Congress legislation aimed at staunching the flood of robocalls to consumers’ phones. The proposal lays lout harsher penalties against marketers and scammers who use automatic dialing devices and gives the Federal Communications Commission more power to go after lawbreakers. The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence, or TRACED, Act was introduced by Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., who said the bill would give the FCC more flexibility to enforce the law in the short term while more permanent solutions are in the works. Under the bill, callers can be slapped with a $10,000 fine for each call they make intentionally violating telemarketing laws, up from the $1,500 per call the law currently allows. And the bill would extend the statute of limitations under which the FCC would be empowered to prosecute robocallers, up from one year to three. Click here for more.