Pluralistic: Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering (21 Apr 2025)

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Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering: PROS Holdings and co will make billions telling companies how to rip you off.
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It's not a crime if we do it with an app: How Big Potato and the other food cartels did greedflation and got away with it.
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Thankful for class consciousness: Eggs, Teslas, airlines, turkeys, and the roof over your head.
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For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices: A long-overdue antitrust beatdown for Agri Stats.
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Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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To fight inflation, fight monopolies: Cartels raise prices using supply chain and "generous" benefits as cover for price-gouging.
How noncompetes shackle workers to dead-end jobs: "You can't work for anyone who competes with Amazon for the next 18 months."
Agricultural right to repair law is a no-brainer: Farmer-tinkerer solidarity.
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