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.
Since the start of Trump’s second term:
⚡️Household electric bills are up 16%
⛽️ Gas prices are soaring thanks to the war in Iran, and diesel prices have reached $6/gal nationally for the first time ever.
That’s the price Americans are paying for Donald Trump's corruption.
Whether fans are throwing hotdogs and burgers on the grill, frozen apps in the oven, or beer in the cooler, they’re in for higher prices on game day.
Many classic items have posted double-digit price hikes – in just the last year, thanks to Trump's tariffs.
We’ve only ever had 4 consumer sentiment readings below 50, all of them in 2026
America is plagued by a housing crisis.
The median U.S. single-family home price now runs more than $400,000. Young families are finding that suitable homes are scarce as a result.
Solution: Manufactured housing. Read about our bold proposal 👇
