Taming the Pricing Beast
The government has a variety of strategies to protect the public from price-gouging and information advantages over the consumer.
Lina Khan: Extraction Exterminator
The Federal Trade Commission chair plays a key role in preventing exploitative pricing schemes from taking root.
Fantasyland General
Hospital pricing is impenetrable to consumers and regulators alike. The result: increased costs and profits, and wasteful reliance on armies of middlemen.
War in the Aisles
Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.
What We Owe
The big banks behind the rising cost of credit
The One-Click Economy
Digital subscriptions are here to stay. What should we do about that?
The Urge to Surge
Businesses are hiking prices to take advantage of consumers. They learned it from Uber.
Loaded Up With Junk
Extra profits are the only explanation for many fees businesses charge.
Three Algorithms in a Room
A growing number of industries are using software to fix prices. Law enforcers are beginning to fight back.
One Person One Price
Digital surveillance and customer isolation are individualizing the prices we pay.
The Age of Recoupment
How power, technology, and opportunity have come together to gouge consumers
