Hospital pricing is impenetrable to consumers and regulators alike. The result: increased costs and profits, and wasteful reliance on armies of middlemen.
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Fighting Corporate Pricing Schemes Is Incredibly Good Politics
Today on TAP: A bill in the House attacking junk fees gets broad bipartisan support.
Posted inEconomic Policy
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.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Everybody’s Raising Prices
This week on our live show, David Dayen and Lindsay Owens of Groundwork Collaborative talk pricing.
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A Window on Corporate Deceptions
Today on TAP: The amazing creativity of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Time for the Fed to Meet the FTC
Today on TAP: The real source of too many price hikes is concentrated market power, not macroeconomic overheating.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Three Algorithms in a Room
A growing number of industries are using software to fix prices. Law enforcers are beginning to fight back.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Age of Recoupment
How power, technology, and opportunity have come together to gouge consumers
Posted inLaw and Justice
Juries Rule
The Donald Trump verdict is a lesson that ordinary people doing their civic duty can break the cycle of elite failure to hold people accountable.
Posted inPolitics
The Three Barriers to Biden’s Re-Election
Price increases, a broader economic frustration built over decades, and an inability to articulate what’s being done about any of it