#poliecon — Public Fediverse posts
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@groundwork.bsky.social :
Airfare ✈️ is up 20.7%
Tomatoes 🍅 are up nearly 40%
Coffee ☕️ is up 18.5%
Beef 🥩 is up 14.8%
Eggs 🍳 are up 1.5%And wages? Up 0.2%.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tanyatussing/116346855124702428
From #MikeKonczal : "The romance of #markets as self-correcting, dynamic, and resilient machines has made us forget about the crisises, collapse, and depressions that have always come with #capitalism. But it has also made us forget how necessary the legal and political environment is to creating #innovation and #Prosperity , and how vulnerable it becomes when the economy is treated as the mere property of owners.”
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"When you make enough money, you get to write the laws."
Funny, yet depressing, 3 min video about how #PBM s raise #drug prices:
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"When you make enough money, you get to write the laws."
Funny, yet depressing, 3 min video about how #PBM s raise #drug prices:
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"When you make enough money, you get to write the laws."
Funny, yet depressing, 3 min video about how #PBM s raise #drug prices:
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"When you make enough money, you get to write the laws."
Funny, yet depressing, 3 min video about how #PBM s raise #drug prices:
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"When you make enough money, you get to write the laws."
Funny, yet depressing, 3 min video about how #PBM s raise #drug prices:
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@pluralistic , thanks for highlighting the Biden admin's important initiatives reinvigorating US competition enforcement.
72 items!
In 2021, the Biden admin published an "executive order on competition, laying out a 72-point program for using existing powers vested in the administrative agencies to break up corporate power and get the monopolist's boot off Americans' necks:"
"The Competition EO is basically a checklist...