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The Consumerist Industry

After every crisis or tragedy there’s an outcropping of gurus and specialists, each of whom claims to have called the ending before it arrived, each of whom claims to have a proprietary technology, process or Gallup-esque survey tool to ward off future incidences.  This recession is already beginning to sow its first consumerist crop.

Let’s see.  There are the nonprofit consumer protection and product safety watchdogs, the for-profit consumer research and report companies, the personal finance gurus (Suze Orman and the like), the consumer credit counselors, identity theft protection firms (Lifelock and the lot) and more business consultants than you can shake a laser pointer at.

Joining them will be a throng of others in tinier and tinier niches including forensic accountants (to autopsy cooked books), forensic economists (to predict where fraud is most likely to strike next), auditors (to inspect what we expect), government performance monitors (to make sure President Obama and team stay on the good foot), companies hawking predictive modeling software and algorithms (to tell you who is credit-worthy, where to invest your few dollars) and a zillion online portals for vetting credit cards and other financial instruments, shopping insurance products, monitoring identity theft scams and airing business grievances (a “GetSatisfaction.com for every product/service).

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