…To Stop ‘Surveillance Pricing’ by Dennis Limmer @ RetailWire The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating “surveillance pricing,” where companies use artificial intelligence to set different prices for the same…

…to interpose meaningful checks and balances and a separation of powers among the responsibilities of the executive, legislative and judicial branches. It is also well understood that the respective branches’…

…to provide the requisite checks and balances; unequal the task at hand. Three out of the three are on the same wrong side of checks and balances. This when the…

…get the clue and begin immediately to work with Democrats to remove Trump from office and re-establish the rule of law, and check and balances; to save the nation.  That…

…all standard consumer protections, hyperinflate loan balances– including and especially through defaulting loans-, and use collection powers that would “make the mafia envious” (Elizabeth Warren’s words) to extract the money…

…demonstrates that elevated excess private saving (firms and households) keeps the government deficit in the red. For a discussion of the 3-sector financial balances, see Scott Fullwiler and Rob Parenteau;…

…. went up during the pandemic and then back down. It is currently lower than it was at the end of 2019 (76.2% vs. 77.7%). “Total credit card balances today…

…James Ward in Workmen and Wages (“What Trades-Unions Really Are”, 1868) alleged the “real cause of the objection to piecework and overtime… the fallacy which lies at the bottom of…

Calculated Risk Steve Waldman Dean Baker…

Even more than Digby on CalPERS, the one piece everyone should read today is Charlie Stross on International Travel. Since this is an economics blog, let’s pull a key section:…