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Today, the Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate at 3.50% to 3.75%.
Twelve months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, his disastrous economic policies are hitting Americans where it hurts most.
This week Matt and David talk with pricing expert Lindsay Owens, Executive Director of Groundwork Collaborative, about Google's plan to turn its Gemini AI into your personal shopping assistant.
Just over a year into Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, the majority of Americans say this is Trump’s economy now and it’s failing.
"What the secretary was intimating earlier today, to me, that doesn't unlock a bunch of growth — it unlocks a bunch of inflation," Liz Pancotti, managing director of policy and advocacy at Groundworks, a liberal-leaning think tank.
Chad Maisel writes: Much ink has been spilled on the housing affordability crisis. Rents are up by nearly 35 percent since the pandemic, with some metro areas seeing spikes as high as 50 percent. For too many Americans and their families, the prospect of owning a home feels like an impossible dream.
There are several reasons to see what Google is doing as ominous. Pricing expert Lindsay Owens, who helped uncover the dynamic pricing scheme of Instacart, noted that this pricing engine could be a way of having Google help retailers analyze user data and then use it to “overcharge” consumers.
Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the liberal Groundwork Collaborative, said: “At the end of the day, it’s the investors and billionaires at Davos who have his attention, not the families struggling to afford their bills.”
“At the end of the day, it’s the investors and billionaires at Davos who have his attention, not the families struggling to afford their bills,” said Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a liberal think tank.
“He’s not going to reap any benefits from just saying the words,” said Alex Jacquez, citing Democrats’ experience during President Joe Biden’s administration. “People’s costs will actually need to go down. You don’t get any credit for giving it the ol’ college try.”