A GALLUP POLL has revealed that Americans consider the microwave oven their favorite technological advance of recent decades. Camcorders and telephone answering machines also got a lot of votes as ...

Do you find infomercials hard to resist? Are you one of the Americans who spent more than $8.5 billion last year on baldness cures, fitness equipment, options trading systems and other products after ...

Jan. 13, 2006 — -- Kevin Trudeau is handsome, charming and a financial success. A few weeks ago in Chicago, at the multimillion-dollar pool tournament he has personally founded and financed, ...

The Screen Actors Guild's 2003 Commercials Contract, which has been extended to 2008, covers infomercials shot on film, although the guild also has a separate five-page agreement that deals with them ...

Money is tight. Family budgets are stretched. Non-essential purchases are being put off. And yet, infomercial sales are booming. Demand for “As Seen on TV” products is stronger than ever, in fact.