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Have you heard that tariffs wll drive prices up? Me too. There's a good rea… |
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@pluralistic My niece's friend lives in Vermont. The state imports much the… |
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@StefanEJones @pluralistic Does that bother MAGAs though? They don't strike… |
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But that $6t is just for starters. If there's one thing we learned from the… |
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How do we know that bosses were jacking up prices? They told us so! In investor… |
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Neoclassical economists insist that this is impossible. For greedflation to be … |
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But what if we were to waste 40 years, waving through anticompetitive mergers u… |
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Post #AtJuRbepaSxswztOW8 by [email protected] |
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They're godparents to each others' children, executors of one-another&#… |
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But we live in the computer age. We aren't cavemen, confined to whispering … |
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Post #AtJuRcOCrlGFDj7dFA by [email protected] |
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And it's true with rent:https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/11/nimby-yimby-fimb… |
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Post #AtJuRcjpZMYgInEtwu by [email protected] |
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But never let it be said that monopolists can't innovate. Thanks to the tot… |
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Post #AtJuRd7w7jqBVYW9WS by [email protected] |
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For example, McDonald's has invested in a company called "Plexure"… |
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Take nurses, whose staffing agencies have been replaced by a cartel of three ap… |
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The industry calls this "personalized pricing," and and they tout the… |
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Indeed, the main benefit of personalized pricing - apart from price-gouging, th… |
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Post #AtJuReaKhe9K1uoLQG by [email protected] |
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Then came the election, and a change in leadership at the FTC. Out with Lina Kh… |
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This is a damned shame, because the country's largest, most successful &quo… |
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Post #AtJuRfJ01ZsWGRi12m by [email protected] |
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Zawada works for PROS Holdings, a notorious price-setting technology provider. … |
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A former FTC official summed it up nicely: "The message that is coming out… |
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Post #AtJuRg0xO92YSmH7Ym by [email protected] |
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And the firms are listening. Autozone's last 2024 earnings call included th… |
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Instead, they advise businesses to raise prices in expectation of "faster,… |
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But he said this even as he was shutting down the agency's investigations i… |
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*. Catch me … |
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@pluralistic if money can == speech for Citizens United, surely pricing can == … |
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@rndeon @pluralistic Oh absolutely. It is already illegal in the USA, but the f… |
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Post #AtLoap4uqcXNlu1bIu by [email protected] |
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@CptSuperlative @pluralistic In social sciences and philosophy, people often se… |
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Post #AtMYmLtVm4ywcr7scS by [email protected] |
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@CptSuperlative @Felienne @0f4d0335 @pluralistic like socialism is a semantic h… |
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@CptSuperlative @0f4d0335 @pluralistic yeah it does feel like there's some … |
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@ireneistaAlways read your foundational source material for yourself!@0f4d0335 … |
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@CptSuperlative @ireneista @0f4d0335 @pluralistic I remember Max Boot or one of… |
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@CptSuperlative @0f4d0335 @pluralistic Certainly most Conservatives do not know… |
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@CptSuperlative @0f4d0335 @pluralistic I think people that think they are one o… |
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@hasen @CptSuperlative @pluralistic Reading is one thing, but I think young peo… |
