The Dream of Our Founding Fathers

In addition to campaign contributions, Amway also did this weekly enormous conference call thing. When Obama came in, there was tremendous hope among consumer activists that surely the Obama administration would take the handcuffs off the FTC. But strangely, nothing happened. In 2008, a hedge fund manager Bill Ackman raised questions about Herbalife's accounting practices and the stock lost more than 30% of its value.