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Rising prices and stalling growth leaves Fed’s hands tied as the president’s mismanagement batters consumers and businesses alike.
Kitty Richards: “Those gas prices are then trickling through to everything that people buy: From clothes and crayons to airfare, food, and medicine. Anything that requires fuel or transportation is going to see a price increase. And that’s one of the reasons that we already have seen consumer prices on the whole rise.”
“In the first administration, the economy was his superpower,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive think tank that works on economic issues. “That phenomenon was critical to his reelection. People remembered him as strong on the economy.”
“The literature shows that high-income individuals simply do not choose where to live, on net, based on marginal differences in their top tax rate,” Alex Jacquez, the chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, told Jacobin.
Kevin Warsh, President Trump's nominee to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, was grilled by Senators at a high-stakes confirmation hearing. MS NOW Congressional Reporter Mychael Schnell has the latest updates from Capitol Hill. Romney 2012 Campaign Chief Strategist Stuart Stevens and Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork Alex Jacquez join Chris Jansing with their analysis.
Lindsay Owens, a privacy campaigner who leads the Groundwork Collaborative think-tank, said: “JetBlue accidentally tweeted their cold-blooded confession: they are using customers’ search history against them to drive up prices.”
First report compiled after Trump started war in Iran shows consumers are on the hook for ‘skyrocketing’ prices.
Elizabeth Pancotti, managing director of policy and advocacy at the Groundwork Collaborative, said there are two reasons for that: “One is, it is tax refund season. And we know that every tax refund season, we see a bump in retail sales as folks spend those one-time refunds. And two, as prices go up, retail sales go up.”
“JetBlue accidentally tweeted their cold-blooded confession: They are using customers’ search history against them to drive up price,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative. “While JetBlue is now claiming the post was an ‘error,’ their only mistake was pulling back the curtain on their own deceptive pricing practices.”
“It starts to reinforce this idea that taxes, rather than being a thing that we all have to pay in order to support the kind of society that we want, are a punitive tool from the government,” said Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive group.