Today on TAP: Addressing corporate price-gouging, building housing, helping families. Good stuff and smart politics.
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Posted inPolitics
The Case for Pragmatic Socialism
The times are right for a socialist agenda that America can accept. We even have examples of it in practice.
Posted inEconomic Policy
FTC Opens Surveillance Pricing Inquiry
After a Prospect investigation into companies charging different prices to customers for the same products, the agency wants to learn more.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The American People Need An Anti-Price-Fixing Division
A formal, congressionally appropriated division would have the resources to go after pricing schemes.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Escape From the Box
New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer secrets.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Their Whole Racket Does Not Work
Our investigations editor takes us through some of the biggest scams of the week.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Economic Punditry and the ‘Hot Dog Guy’ Problem
Why centrist opinion columnists have no one to blame but themselves for public misconceptions about the economy
Posted inHousing
How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Green
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Underbelly of the Grocery Store
Nothing you see on the shelves is there by accident.