“Price optimization” consultants are helping clients capitalize on Trump’s chaotic tariff rollout by using surveillance pricing tools, while Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is reversing efforts to keep them in check.
“Price optimization” consultants are helping clients capitalize on Trump’s chaotic tariff rollout by using surveillance pricing tools, while Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is reversing efforts to keep them in check.
Inflation, student debt, medical debt, skyrocketing rents, meager wages, and deteriorating public amenities. So many of these problems stretched back to the Bush/Obama Era, particularly in the wake of the Great Recession. They never got properly fixed and the wounds were ripped wide open again under COVID.
Dems don’t seem to want to admit that there’s anything wrong with the US economic status quo. And the real fear going into '26/'28 is - even setting aside whether we’re going to have anything resembling normal elections again - what an incoming liberal congressional majority is going to do in opposition. Are they going to look at the trainwreck of policy Trump has implemented and try to roll it back? Are they going to trailblaze a new kind of egalitarian economic reforms through the rubble? Or are they just going to shrug, concede that this is the New Normal, and go back to insisting American Exceptionalism is whenever liberals are in charge?