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Around the world, consumer choice is under pressure. New rules, new bans, new limits — shaping what we buy, what we use, and how we live. But consumers deserve better.
Consumer Choice Center — an independent, non-partisan global advocacy group. We champion freedom of choice, innovation, and abundance in everyday life.
We use research, data, storytelling, and on-the-ground activism to make sure your voice is heard in parliaments, in the media, online, and on the streets. Across every continent, we are there where decisions are made.
We empower people everywhere to speak up, stand up, and demand better.
Tens of thousands of members. Dozens of campaigns.
Because Your Choice is Our Fight.
What do higher alcohol taxes and AI regulation have in common?
The same people are paying for both. And once you see who, you can’t unsee it 🧵
From pints to AI prompts, it’s one machine with two products.
Fund the research, call it neutral science, turn it into law. You pay at the checkout.
And open-source AI is next on the list.
@YaelOss and @davidclement followed the money. What they found is one machine with two products, and it won’t stop at pints and prompts.
There’s a lot more in the report that’ll surprise you.👇️ consumerchoicecenter.org/how…
Up to seven hours in the chair by IV. Three to five minutes as an injection. A CMS rule due this fall decides whether upgrades like that keep getting built. @FredCyrusRoeder on who pays for the answer:
consumerchoicecenter.org/a-c…
A prediction contract and a sportsbook wager can ride on the same final score. Who sets the price, who carries the risk, and who gets paid can still differ. @davidclement in @MansfieldNJ mansfieldnewsjournal.com/sto…
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Annoyed by Trump's insults? You should be.
But is it worth walking away from the USMCA, which a new report says would cost Canadians 100,000 jobs next year alone should that occur? Definitely not.
Free trade is worth saving.
Read more here 👇
@ConsumerChoiceC
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Matching bad policy with a homemade version doesn’t protect anyone. It just makes the economic hardship worse.
Ottawa calls Trump’s tariffs a tax paid for by Americans. Then it brought the same tax home.
So who really pays when two governments match bad policy with more bad policy?
Canada can’t brace for Trump’s storm by making it bigger.
Read David’s full piece: finance.yahoo.com/economy/po…
Legal sports betting volume is up more than 3,000% since 2018. Problem gambling rates are flat, back at 2018 baselines. @davidclement on a reported FTC look at sportsbooks, nobody has confirmed: consumerchoicecenter.org/con…
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As @davidclement says, the report in the @washingtonsun suggesting an FTC investigation into the sportsbooks is underway bears the hallmarks of wishcasting PR—meant to encourage, not confirm a probe. Just sayin.
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The NFL wants the Supreme Court to treat a Kalshi contract like a DraftKings bet. In August, the league dropped DraftKings and FanDuel as betting partners.
@StephenKentX in the @dcexaminer washingtonexaminer.com/resto…
Consumer Choice Center retweeted
NEW: What does *Effective Altruism* have to do with a centuries-old teetotaler temperance group and a global battle to constrain access to AI technology?
This is the story of how a well-intended, evidence-minded philanthropy took a detour into sprawling funding and influence campaigns to restrict people and technology, and the people who bankroll it all.
These are the neoprohibitionists.
A new paper by @ConsumerChoiceC 👇
From pints to AI prompts, they want to run your life. Drops tomorrow.
@davidclement @ConsumerChoiceC
Investigations into market practices are part of a well-regulated market, and do not point toward a case for prohibition @davidclement
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The Iowa Electronic Markets, a university-run prediction market, beat 964 polls across 5 presidential elections, & its edge grew the further out the forecast was made.
That’s what a market-priced probability can do that a sportsbook’s house odds can’t. buff.ly/iKON79v
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Without supernatural foresight, every action you take that isn’t guaranteed to turn out well is “a gamble” AKA risk. That doesn’t make what you’re doing “gambling.” — my latest in @dcexaminer
washingtonexaminer.com/resto…