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Today, President Trump announced that Kevin Warsh will be his pick for Chair of the Federal Reserve when current Chair Jay Powell’s term concludes in May.
Today, the Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate at 3.50% to 3.75%.
The evidence that MLR is contributing to vertical integration is “becoming harder and harder to refute,” said Andres Arguello, a policy fellow with the advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative and a former Department of Health and Human Services official in the Biden administration.
Researchers found that overall Instacart basket totals varied by an average of about 7% for the exact same items from the exact same locations, at the exact same time. Based on the amount that Instacart says the average household of four spends on groceries in the US, that could translate into a cost swing of about $1,200 per year. Source: Groundwork Collaborative.
“Violations are rampant,” says Jacquez, who previously worked at the National Economic Council under the Biden Administration. “It’s hard to pin these guys down if they don’t believe there will be any ramifications on the back end.”
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.