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But Alex Jacquez, senior vice president for policy, advocacy and research at the Washington-based economic policy think tank Groundwork Collaborative, said the price of diesel is likely to stay above $6 through Election Day.
“It’s a great kind of villain for members to take on that is not just the next attack on Trump,” said Alex Jacquez, a former Biden official at the White House National Economic Council, regarding utilities. “It’s something other than Trump that you can stand up to.”
Walmart $WMT +3.46%'s executive vice president of corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, has written an open letter to the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive advocacy group, rejecting its claims that the retailer is building technology to charge customers different prices based on their personal data.
Lindsay Owens, president and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative and author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price and What That Means for Your Wallet, joins Newt to explain how pricing became a weaponized science.
NPR's Joel Rose speaks with Lindsay Owens, president of the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, about how companies using data to transform the products and prices customers see.
Lindsay Owens, the author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet, has been giving interviews to everyone from Jon Stewart to Gizmodo recently. Owens has talked at length about the ways that companies like Walmart are acquiring patents that could potentially be used for surveillance pricing, the practice of adjusting prices for individual consumers based on their personal information.
This week, our organization, Groundwork Collaborative, released a stunning analysis of more than 10 years of Walmart’s patent filings. Our research reveals a sprawling arsenal of technologies capable of tracking shoppers and building extraordinarily detailed profiles of them.
''These are all Band-Aid-over-bullet-hole measures that I think are designed to get a little bit of price relief through December,'' said Alex Jacquez, senior vice president of policy, advocacy and research at Groundwork Collaborative, who previously worked on economic issues in the Biden administration.
Grayson Flood, a senior fellow at Groundwork Collaborative, told me he believes the bill will actually incentivize more data center developers to hook up to the grid and may result in fewer projects relying on off-grid gas plants constructed purely for operating GPUs.
This week, our organization, Groundwork Collaborative, released a stunning analysis of more than 10 years of Walmart’s patent filings. Our research reveals a sprawling arsenal of technologies capable of tracking shoppers and building extraordinarily detailed profiles of them.