Ahead of this year’s World Cup, “FIFA has embraced a familiar opportunity: permission to price-gouge,” @owenslindsay1 says in @TheAtlantic.
Some ticket prices have topped $80,000.
“The irony is hard to miss: in chasing maximum revenue, FIFA risks shrinking the very audience
More bad news for Walmart shoppers.
Walmart’s CEO was caught bragging about how their new AI shopping assistant “Sparky” quietly tracks customers in the Walmart app, and gets them to spend 35% more.
Here’s how.
“This ain't your momma's home economics, right?”
A reporter tracked her Old Navy cart for 2 weeks. The same items changed price 3 times. @owenslindsay1 to @BusinessInsider: "Everything we learned about shopping for decades has shifted."
And if you don't know the tricks? You're
Trump’s budget slashes programs that ensure families can afford their housing and electric bills and protect workers on the job all to bankroll a bloated Pentagon budget.
3/ And Trump’s incoherent tariff policy is only making matters worse.
"Adding insult to injury: there is some evidence, according to... @Groundwork, big corporations are taking advantage of all the confusion to impose inflationary price hikes in order to boost their own
Looking to score FIFA World Cup tickets? Prepare to spend thousands of dollars.
@EmDiVito tells @FOX26Houston: “The average fan has virtually no chance of receiving [a $60-tiered ticket]. They only represented 1%-2% of game tickets anyway.”
Our @ENPancotti doesn't hold back when it comes to Trump's Liberation Day tariffs:
"Overall, the economic picture here in the U.S. is really one of calamity."
"It has been the American consumer stuck with most of the bill."
Watch her full interview 👇
Groceries are already a big item in any family’s budget. But the war in Iran is about to make them even more expensive.
Here are the 3 ways Trump’s war is going to cost you at the grocery store.
The big picture: The US economy has added only 260,000 jobs in the past year.
380,000 jobs were added in healthcare.
Most other industries *lost* jobs
Federal gov't -330,000 in past year
Information -76,000
Manufacturing -75,000
Finance -67,000
State gov't -47,000
Professional
Today's jobs report headline looks okay.
The fine print doesn't.
→ February revised to a loss of 133,000 jobs
→ Hiring at its weakest pace since 2020
→ Discouraged workers up 40% in a single month
→ Average unemployment spell: nearly 4 months
@BreyonWilliams says it all 👇
Annual wage growth hit its weakest pace since 2021. Trump’s war in Iran is already pushing prices higher, adding pressure as paychecks slow.
Job growth is bouncing up and down month to month instead of building consistently. That’s not what a strong labor market looks like.
Today’s headline payroll gains don’t tell the full story. February’s job losses were revised to -133,000. More people are being pushed to the sidelines, with marginally attached workers up 20% and discouraged workers up 40% in just one month.
Trump promised economic growth “like you’d never seen before.”
The reality shows that’s BS. Economic forecasts have recession odds near a coin flip.
@owenslindsay1 breaks down where Trump's tariffs have hit the hardest.
It’s been one year since Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs. He promised they’d make Americans “good and wealthy.”
Instead, they cost you – big time.
