Watch our @owenslindsay1 on @jonstewart's @weeklyshowpod break down how corporations are using new technologies to rip you off.
Everything has shifted under our feet – watch now 👇
If prices seem to be going up by the minute, it’s because they often are. Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative (@Groundwork), is here looking at the ways tech is being weaponized against consumers’ budgets. New pod tomorrow!
Big thanks to @jonstewart for having me back on @weeklyshowpod to chat all things “Gouged” and the reinvention of the rip off.
“Gouged” is out on 9/29 and available for pre-order now:
Bookshop: https://bit.ly/GougedBookshop
Amazon: https://bit.ly/GougedAmazon
“Economists love an auction. Americans trust a line.” Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative (@Groundwork), unpacks consumer sentiment around cost passthrough.
Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), author of Gouged, explains how smart carts have made it easier to target specific consumers with higher prices. New pod out now! @Groundwork
People on the street can’t believe it, but it’s only a matter of time before your shopping cart knows more about you than your doctor.
Shopping carts tracking your heart beat, how long you linger in an aisle, and more could be coming soon.
If prices seem to be going up by the minute, it’s because they often are. Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative (@Groundwork), is here looking at the ways tech is being weaponized against consumers’ budgets. New pod tomorrow!
Football fans are now stuck paying a lot more for less access to games.
To watch every football game, fans now need at least 10 different streaming services, and it'll cost them up to $900 a year.
Our @EmDiVito breaks it down for @DenverChannel.
The Fed has never raised rates with consumer sentiment this low, until today.
We're all just trying to find the person who did this.
buckle up. gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours, hardest in parts of the nation's interior. i track this for a living and i'll be sharing real-time updates as it unfolds powered by GasBuddy data, looking at many different angles. ready to share w/ you all.
"Gouged" is just two weeks away, and we're not the only ones excited!
Washington Independent Review of Books has it listed first in their sneak preview list for this month. It's still available for pre-order and is out on bookshelves everywhere on September 29!
Our analysis says that this year the overall hike on school supplies is astronomical – 11%.
"On a typical basis, prices rise 2% to 3% per year and this is like five years of inflation rolled into one," our @ENPancotti told @ABC7NY.
That's a lot of families going without.
Wages aren't keeping up with costs, and working families are paying the price.
@BreyonWilliams broke down the numbers: paychecks are up 3.1% while inflation runs 3.7%. That gap means every paycheck buys less than it did a year ago.
Suspending the federal gas tax would lower gas prices by about 13 cents and diesel prices by about 15 cents per gallon – a drop in the bucket (2-3%) when gas prices are at $4.33 and diesel is at $6.27.
The only meaningful way to lower gas prices is to end the war.
Trump's take on the economy is "the argument you make when you’ve run out of economic arguments. You saber-rattle about foreign adversaries, and you wax poetic about a bygone period of American manufacturing," @owenslindsay1 told the @washingtonsun.
