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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: 6/7/2024

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This week on our live show, David Dayen and Lindsay Owens, Executive Director of Groundwork Collaborative, discuss our new joint special issue on pricing: how companies use a variety of schemes and questionable business practices to raise prices, capture more of your money and grow record profits at the expense of consumers. Prices are becoming increasingly unmoored from the fundamentals, like the cost of labor or materials. In its place, a new corporate credo has emerged: The best price is the one consumers are willing to pay. You can read all of our June special issue on pricing here at https://prospect.org/pricing. Want to see more live content from our newsroom? Subscribe today for just a few dollars a month to help make what we do possible: https://prospect.org/membership ...more
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: 6/7/2024
This week on our live show, David Dayen and Lindsay Owens, Executive Director of Groundwork Collaborative, discuss our new joint special issue on pricing: how companies use a variety of schemes and questionable business practices to raise prices, capture more of your money and grow record profits at the expense of consumers. Prices are becoming increasingly unmoored from the fundamentals, like the cost of labor or materials. In its place, a new corporate credo has emerged: The best price is the one consumers are willing to pay. You can read all of our June special issue on pricing here at https://prospect.org/pricing. Want to see more live content from our newsroom? Subscribe today for just a few dollars a month to help make what we do possible: https://prospect.org/membership

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