Canadian airlines may face more penalties for flight disruptions, lost baggage - The Globe and Mail https://apple.news/A9fmLQQX8SXq7lqt3Aswd8Q

Too bad the #Liberals won’t do this for #groceries. #Pricefixing is proven, but Canadians get a tiny tax rebate to “compensate” us.

GENTRIFIED IN AMERICA
only the very rich can afford to buy housing in America now. government is bribed to back this economic assault. game over.

#gentrification #pricegouging #pricefixing #marketcollapse #housing #homelessness #economicassault #gameover

In the old days, price fixing used to require economic competitors to secretly negotiate and often illegally collude with each each other. Nowadays, all it requires is that they use the same AI software tool. In this case YieldStar software for setting rents.

"One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing."

[...]

"“Find out how YieldStar can help you outperform the market 3% to 7%,” RealPage urges potential clients on its website.

Few tenants know that such software, owned by a privately held company, has had a hand in rent increases across the country"

#rent #RentControl #ai #PriceFixing

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

FOR-PROFIT MEDICINE
for Blackrock and Vanguard, not for you.

New report exposes breadth of physician practices owned by private equity - UC Berkeley Public Health

https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/new-report-exposes-breadth-of-physician-practices-owned-by-private-equity/

The report, Monetizing Medicine: Private Equity and Competition in Physician Practice Markets, highlights private equity’s voracious acquisition of physician practices over the last several years. The analysis evaluates market penetration across 10 physician practice specialties within markets across the U.S., the impact on market shares and concentration, and on prices and expenditures.

#pricefixing #monopoly #profitmedicine #medicalpaywall #healthcareaccess #lackingoversight #healthcrisis #capitalism #concentration

National Rent Control? It’s Closer Than You Think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlF6a0JLsYc&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion

A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it.
They're a part of a coalition of massive landlords, baks, and investors who are pooling resources to block rent control and renter protection policies.
One of the biggest landlord industry lobbying groups is called the National Multifamily Housing Council. That group has spent almost $10 million lobbying against rent control.
Despite this opposition, we're seeing one of the largest upticks in tenant organizing since the 1970s, as renters across the country face worsening housing crisis. Groups like KC Tenants are at the forefront of this movement, fighting to stop unfair rent hikes and corporate slumlords..

#pricegouging #pricefixing #abusiverent #slumlords #economicassault #tenantorganizing #renterprotection #rentcontrol #rent

#10yrsago #Goths of #Kenya https://thinkafricapress.com/goth-nairobi/

#10yrsago 3-Bee printing: tricking bees into making wax sculptures https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/film-80-000-bees-work-together-in-a-mould-to-make-a-3d-sculpture

#5yrsago Half a billion #IoT devices inside of businesses can be hacked through decade-old #DNSRebinding attacks https://www.armis.com/blog/dns-rebinding-exposes-half-a-billion-devices-in-the-enterprise/

#5yrsago Europe fines four electronics companies $130,000,000 for #PriceFixing https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/24/europe-fines-asus-denon-marantz-philips-pioneer-for-fixing-prices.html

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@HeavenlyPossum > ProPublica helpfully supplies the answer: a firm called RealPage, which provides software called YieldStar, which allows landlords across the country to coordinate price increases en masse:

You know, this sounds like #collusion and #PriceFixing as a service.

I wonder who's liable? The users? The provider? Both?

To the gasoline makers of Great Britain
Your prices are too high for your citizens
You are using a pandemic as an excuse
To raise prices in a way you should refuse
It’s time to lower prices, I believe
To help people live through these hard times we grieve
Motivated by greed and opportunity
It’s time to end this for our community

#bankofengland #gasoline #overcharging #pricefixing #ode #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/andrew-bailey-inflation-interest-rates-petrol-b2370396.html

Oh, Apple and Amazon, what have you done?
You were meant to help but now you have stunned
Consumers in court allege the two
Engaged in a price fix conspiracy true
We hope the truth that will come soon is known

#apple #amazon #antitrust #pricefixing #ode #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-amazon-must-face-consumer-lawsuit-over-iphone-ipad-prices-us-judge-2023-06-09/

Uncovering the Dark Meat Behind Tyson

https://youtu.be/HpoQN2S9i7M

#essay #iilluminaughtii #labor #tysonfoods #food #chicken #badcompanies #badbusiness #foodprocessing #worksafety #worksafety #childlabor #foodsafety #safetyviolations #stockbuybacks #covid19 #exploitation #trump #pricefixing #pricegouging #factoryfarming #pollution #waterpollution

The Man Starving Canada

#TDIH 8 years ago (Mar 2015) #Loblaw alerted the #Competition Bureau to its part in an allegedly industry-wide #PriceFixing agreement to artificially inflate the price of #Bread from 2001 to 2015. #History #Morals

Galen, would like you to believe him now because?

Profits should be struggling too, since the people providing those profits are struggling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IOsNYnmeSg&t=1s

#GalenWeston #Loblaws #Greedflation #ThoughtSlime #Groceries #Profits #Basics

Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/02/reversing-30-years-of-damage-from-the-clintons-the-doj-closes-a-price-fixing-loophole-wide-enough-to-drive-a-truck-through.html
#Clintons #Obama #Pricefixing

I sometimes wonder what Cook got from Adobe in return for axing Aperture.

Apple gets a lot of money from Google in return for not doing their own search service.

All mature industries tend towards monopoly.

#monopoly #PriceFixing

How do we know #Loblaws & friends, are not #PriceFixing again? #Inflation?

I didn't accept $25 payout.
Refuse such petty amounts. THEY NEED LAWSUITS for hardships caused to struggling families that #Grocery chains collaborated on, for essential groceries @mandyroy.
#CompBureau #Fail

It's been 5 years since the bread price-fixing probe started. We still don't have any answers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bread-price-fixing-loblaw-1.6719884 #News

Lack of results is eroding Canadians' trust at a time of escalating #Food Prices

Let's talk about eggs, supply, and demand....

https://youtu.be/RSRdIMI54Ig

#beauofthefifthcolumn #eggs #supplyanddemand #avianflu #pricefixing #eggsmuggling #politics #uspolitics

Very grateful I have options for groceries & pharmacies. Another #NewYear #Resolution...not giving a fucking dime to Galen Weston.
#Greed #PriceGouging #PriceFixing #Loblaws #ShoppersDrugMart

Corporations doing what corporations do.

https://usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-07-05/smithfield-foods-settles-pork-price-fixing-lawsuit-for-42m

#CorporateCorruption #Corporatocracy #BigAg #Corruption #PriceFixing #AntiTrust #GoVegan #Vegan #Pork @SenJeffMerkley
@SenateDems
@repblumenauer
@RonWyden

@JClickbaited Ticketmaster couldn't handle the traffic of their ticket brokers *and* massive individual demand.

Their relationship with professional bulk ticket buyers needs to be part of any investigation.

(and I'm waiting for the Amazon monopolies to be broken up, too)

#Antitrust #Monopolies #Collusion #PriceFixing

Apple and Amazon colluded to raise iPhone and iPad prices, class action claims - Enlarge / A class-action lawsuit claims that Apple products, like the i... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1896564 #hagensberman #pricefixing #antitrust #policy #amazon #iphone #apple #tech #ipad

Apple and Amazon colluded to raise iPhone and iPad prices, class action claims

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1896564

#hagensberman #pricefixing #antitrust #Policy #Amazon #iphone #apple #Tech #ipad