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| Oct 25, 2026 | What Democrats and Republicans fear most about each other: CNBC survey has the answers | Voters are most concerned about the implementation of policies associated with the Democratic Socialists of America if Democrats control Congress and about President Donald Trump testing the bounds of his office if Republicans retain the Ho... |
| Oct 22, 2026 | Why candy prices are scary high ahead of Halloween | Listen to the article 4 min
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High cocoa and sugar prices are giving consumers a fright ahead of Halloween and prompting more food manufacturers to lean into salty snacks ... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | How to get the best prices online—and fight back against companies that experiment on shoppers | Shopping should not be both increasingly expensive and increasingly exhausting.
I’ve worked as an economic sociologist and consumer advocate for over a decade and helped craft policies on Capitol Hill to protect American shoppers. I’m curre... |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Governor Newsom cuts red tape to accelerate new zero-emissions ferry project in San Francisco Bay | “This project shows what’s possible when multiple benefits work in sync to create something exceptional to meet community needs for a healthier environment and greater resilience to a changing climate,” said Samuel Assefa, Director of the G... |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Governor Newsom presses Secretary Wright to admit the truth: Trump had no viable plan to protect Americans from his Iran war gas and diesel price spikes | Nearly seven months after Donald Trump launched a reckless military action against Iran, Americans have collectively spent more than $100 billion in extra fuel costs compared with what they would have paid absent the war, according to Brown... |
| Aug 20, 2026 | ICYMI OP-ED: Medicaid Is My Lifeline. New Federal Rule Could Take It Away | ICYMI OP-ED: Medicaid Is My Lifeline. New Federal Rule Could Take It Away
MADISON, Wis. — Last week, one of Rep. Bryan Steil’s constituents, Emma Widmar, wrote an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sharing her personal experience with ... |
| Aug 15, 2026 | Surveillance Pricing Probe Targets Eight Airlines With August 25 Deadline | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Aug 15 2026, 11:29 AM EDT
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| Aug 6, 2026 | Senate Holds First AI Pricing Hearing: Agentic Shopping Assistants Expose Legal Blind Spot | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Aug 06 2026, 8:36 AM EDT
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| Mar 27, 2026 | War's Economic Shadow: Gas Surges, Refunds Vanish | The ongoing Iran war delivers a harsh blow to American finances. Skyrocketing gas prices now threaten to negate increased tax refunds, a key promise of the Trump administration. The critical Strait of Hormuz remains closed, severely disrupt... |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Higher gas prices from Iran war could offset bigger tax refunds from Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ | Amid the Iran war, higher gas prices could offset bigger tax refunds from President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” according to some analysts.
The price of gasoline on Thursday was at a nationwide average of $3.98 a gallon, up by roug... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Trump touted bigger tax refunds this year, but Americans will likely spend them on gas | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy was supposed to start the year with a bang, fueled by an unusually large jump in tax refunds from President Donald Trump’s tax cut legislat... |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Average IRS tax refund is up 10.8%, new filing data shows | The average tax refund is 10.8% higher so far this season, compared with about the same period in 2025, according to IRS filing data.
As of March 13, the average refund amount for individual filers was $3,623, up from $3,271 about one year ... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Surrounded by billionaires in Davos, Trump plans to lay out how he’ll make housing more affordable | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to use a key address Wednesday to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable, but he’s picked a stra... |
| Dec 25, 2025 | Instacart Halts AI Price Tests Amid Consumer Outcry | Instacart has stopped its controversial AI-driven price experiments. Shoppers were shown different prices for identical groceries. This practice sparked widespread public criticism. A detailed study by Consumer Reports exposed the significa... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Instacart Hit With $60M FTC Settlement Over Hidden Fees | Image; Adobe Stock
Grocery delivery firm Instacart has agreed to pay massive refunds after federal regulators exposed billing practices that have been draining customers’ wallets for years.
Instacart will hand over $60 million in customer r... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Instacart ends a program where users could see different prices for the same item at the same store | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
NEW YORK (AP) — Instacart said Monday that it’s ending a program where some customers saw different prices for the same product ordered at the same time from the same store when using the delivery ... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Instacart's Secret AI Pricing Sparks Consumer Outcry | Instacart's AI-driven pricing experiments are under fire. A comprehensive investigation reveals customers pay vastly different amounts for identical groceries. Prices vary by up to 23% for the same item, at the same store, at the same ... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Instacart may have charged you more for the same groceries and it’s just another case of AI hell | A new investigation by Consumer Reports, in collaboration with Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union, suggests that Instacart’s use of artificial intelligence in pricing experiments may have resulted in shoppers paying different a... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Instacart settles with FTC over deceptive practices but faces separate investigation into prices | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press
Delivery company Instacart will pay $60 million in customer refunds under a settlement reached with the Federal Trade Commission over alleged deceptive practices... |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Instacart is charging different prices to different customers in a dangerous AI experiment, report says | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times
The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same ... |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Trump is ramping up a new effort to convince a skeptical public he can fix affordability worries | By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is adjusting his messaging strategy to win over voters who are worried about the cost of living with plans to emphasize new tax breaks and show progress on fighting inf... |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Chocolate’s reign over Halloween is under threat from inflation, tariffs and high cocoa prices | Chocolate prices have surged nearly 30% since last Halloween due to inflation, tariffs, and a global cocoa shortage.
Shoppers are shifting toward cheaper, trendier candies such as gummies and sour treats, with chocolate’s Halloween market s... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | School lunch prices are up — whether you pack it or buy it, reports find | Parents and other caregivers packing a school lunch will pay more for the standard fare this year, due to food inflation and tariffs, reports show.
Although school-provided lunches are generally less expensive than lunches from home, those ... |
| Aug 28, 2024 | The Rent Algorithm: A Legal Battle for Fair Housing | The landscape of American housing is shifting. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken a bold step against RealPage, a Texas-based software company, accusing it of manipulating rental prices through its AI-driven algorithms. This lawsuit,... |
| Aug 23, 2024 |
DOJ thumps RealPage with another antitrust lawsuit over AI-driven rent pricing | The Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to take aim at alleged antitrust violations in the real estate industry.
The DOJ filed a civil suit against RealPage on Friday, claiming that the company’s YieldStar and AI revenue management (AIRM)... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Vibecession "now more than ever" | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The vibecession is so back.
The big picture: "I think we are in one now more than ever and I think it will get worse in the election," says Kyla Scanlon, who coined the term and is the autho... |
| May 14, 2024 | The Fed is struggling to break the back of inflation. Here's why. | Call Kurtis: Feds don't cut interest rates as prices go up
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The Federal Reserve's two-year battle to tame inflation is turning into a drawn-out war, with the cen... |
| Mar 13, 2024 |
Rosy economic news could prolong elevated mortgage rates | Good news! The national economy is growing; unemployment is low; corporate revenues are up.
For housing and mortgage professionals, however, these apparent boons spell trouble. They signal that the economy is still running hot — or at least... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Inflation is cooling. So why are food prices, from steak to fast-food meals, still rising? | Inflation may be rapidly cooling, but there's one area that continues to eat away at Americans' budgets: Stubbornly high food prices.
Rising food costs were one contributor to the hotter-than-expected inflation report on Tuesday, ... |
| Nov 11, 2023 | Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Bilal Baydoun: It’s time to talk about affordability, not just inflation | By Bilal Baydoun
For the last two years, the debate on the economy has centered around inflation.
After reaching a 40-year high last summer, inflation as measured by economists is now approaching normal levels. But despite the rapid slowdow... |
| May 2, 2023 | The real monster behind soaring prices | Redeem now
Drew has worked in the wholesale grocery business for over 20 years, making sure food hits the shelves on time and at the best prices. But nothing in his two decades in the industry prepared him for companies' response to th... |
| May 2, 2023 | Why does everything cost so much? Because businesses are 'hiding behind inflation to jack up prices.' | It's becoming clear that corporate greed is screwing over the US economy
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Drew has worked in the wholesale grocery business for over 20 years, making sure food hits the shelves on time and at the best prices. But nothing i... |
| Dec 18, 2022 | Why The Federal Reserve Can’t Solve Food Price Inflation | Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Mar 31, 2022 | U.S. companies post their biggest profit growth in decades by jacking up prices during the pandemic | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
U.S. companies posted record profits in 2021, even as Americans struggled with rising consumer prices amid... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | The Fed wants to slow down the economy. It risks leaving Black workers behind | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
This week, Chairman Powell and the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee voted to raise interest rates and... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Top Democrats rip corporations for price gouging. ‘Executives brazenly boast to investors about raising prices’ | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
A pack of 50 Kimberly-Clark N95 masks cost $2,319 in October 2021. By mid-January, the same box of masks c... |
| Raising interest rates won't fix the real reason behind inflation: price-gouging and corporate greed | Meat is one of the many food products that have had sharp price hikes in recent months. Giselleflissak/Getty Images
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast.
He recently spoke... |
| A new proposed tax on Big Oil's profit markups offers a solution for cash-strapped Americans | A U.S. postal worker puts his seatbelt on after filing up his vehicle at a gas station in Garden Grove, California, U.S., March 29, 2022. Mike Blake/Reuters
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| Biden has few options left to quickly bring down gas prices. Now he's making a big bet by bashing Big Oil and turning to a brutal leader for help. | President Joe Biden. Susan Walsh/AP Photo
Biden has few choices to cut gas prices and avert a political wipeout.
He's making a big bet by bashing Exxon and traveling to Saudi Arabia next month.
"Begging MBS for oil won't redu... |