What are the risks of a financial crash in the coming year? Let us count the ways.
Economic Policy
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Meet the Connectors
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
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Trapped at the Concession Stand
Captive pricing follows when customers have no choices. Policymakers can do something about it.
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How the AI Bubble Might Play Out
Investment in new technology always needs startup financing, and if AI is truly God in the machine, wide adoption will pay off over time. But that isn’t materializing, at least not yet.
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Prices in the Machine
AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.
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Sources of America’s Hidden Inflation
How market power jacks up prices, and how Trump’s policies add to the pressure
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Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class
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The Historic Reversal of Cultural Affordability
America used to be a pioneer in democratizing culture.
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The Wrist-Slappers Strike Again
A settlement with algorithmic collusion facilitator RealPage allows it to keep allegedly ill-gotten profits and continue innovating to raise rents.