products to consumers outside the network senator ed markey sent a letter sent a letter to the f.t.c. last week asking them to investigate herbalife and according to brant wilkes executive director of the league of united latin american citizens more than a dozen activists from around the country will be meeting with ramirez in washington on wednesday now the ramirez meeting. it's just the latest in efforts by critics of herbalife to pressure regulators into investigating the company but what i want to know is this what is the holdup seriously as to see while the love for herbalife why serious investors are telling us it's a pyramid scheme kind of like serious investors were telling us that bernie madoff company was also a pyramid scheme or a ponzi scheme totally different right. why is the government in no rush to look into these things could perhaps have to do with their preoccupation with peeping up asset prices i'm just saying serious people are making serious allegations and it's time to seriously investigate well there you have it. all the way. let's start right here in america with

products to consumers outside the network senator ed markey sent a letter sent a letter to the f.t.c. last week asking them to investigate herbalife and according to brant wilkes executive director of the league of united latin american citizens more than a dozen activists from around the country will be meeting with ramirez in washington.

last year the f.t.c. dropped a similar probe. this is a big deal. >> it is a big deal.e rs going toll put competitive services on their own site. they have tremendous control because that's where everyone goes to search for things. if you are a competitive search service and you want people to find what you do, you need google to help you get there. what the settlement forces google to do is be more honest about how it shows result frs competitors. >> what kind of teeth are in this because the notion of putting results in there but letting other businesses show up in the monopoly that is google is another? >> if you are to talk to executives at google the types of responses you would get is we're still a lot smarter than these guys and there are things we can go around this rule that allow us to promote our services in ways that we don't for others. the reality is people are going to google to search for everything. the competitive issues we are dealing with is a small subset of what google does. >> isn't that similar to a settlement they made with the u.s.? >> it's all

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