The big banks behind the rising cost of credit
pricing
Posted inEconomic Policy
The One-Click Economy
Digital subscriptions are here to stay. What should we do about that?
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.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Urge to Surge
Businesses are hiking prices to take advantage of consumers. They learned it from Uber.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Loaded Up With Junk
Extra profits are the only explanation for many fees businesses charge.
Posted inTAP
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
One Person One Price
Digital surveillance and customer isolation are individualizing the prices we pay.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Age of Recoupment
How power, technology, and opportunity have come together to gouge consumers