American Economic Liberties Project
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The American Economic Liberties Project is fighting to realize economic liberty for all, in support of a secure, inclusive democratic society.
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http://www.economicliberties.us 26-11-2019 16:11:15
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Today the The Wall Street Journal ed board put out a bogus defense of RealPage including the bald lie that "landlords are still independently deciding rents." In reality, RealPage goes to great lengths to enforce its pricing, including assigning "pricing advisors" to landlords who seek to deviate.
1. When businesses retroactively devalue rewards points or add new hurdles to using them, customers can lose out. Today Secretary Pete Buttigieg launched an inquiry into airlines’ rewards practices to ensure travelers are getting a fair shake. transportation.gov/briefing-room/…
"The transparency of the ground rules has evaporated behind an opaque screen, so the value of miles and points is harder than ever to discern." ICYMI: William J. McGee applauds the U.S. Department of Transportation's new inquiry into increasingly unfair airline rewards programs.👇 usatoday.com/story/travel/a…
Great to see Elizabeth Warren point to "the insatiable hunger of gargantuan Big Tech companies for Nvidia chips, along with the company's opaque and preferential allocation of them," in starving startup companies of infrastructure in the AI space👇 businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warr…
The latest statement from journalists condemning Google’s proposed California journalism deal, this time from our allies at Freelance Solidarity Project National Writers Union. There still isn’t a single organization representing California journalists that supports this framework. nwu.org/statement-bigt…
A new book on monopolies in Canada is coming soon from Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-bi…