'What if the productivity gap is really about how large corporations use their economic and political power to squeeze out innovation in favour of larger profit margins?'

Question of the decade, from Rana Foroohar

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It seems almost impossible to believe, but The Guarantee is available TODAY in bookstores across the country. Thank you to everyone who helped bring this book to life, and especially to The Guarantee architects. I'll be forever grateful and inspired by what you have ushered into

In 2020, I wrote a blueprint for a Biden trust-busting Presidency. The FTC and DOJ have surpassed expectations. But the linchpin, the key first move, the path laid out by Sandeep Vaheesan --banning the scourge of noncompetes--that is happening today.

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The Guarantee hits stores tomorrow and ESP President and co-founder Natalie Foster is traveling the country this spring to share the vision of a Guarantee Economy alongside an incredible lineup of change makers. Event and ticket info at TheGuarantee.us

Forty-odd years after neoliberalism took hold it’s clear it doesn’t work. In fact, it never had either a robust theory or the data to back up its claims. Time to introduce a new, more freeing capitalism that allows all people to live up to their potential. That’s what I do in my

An excerpt from my new book, The Road to Freedom (W. W. Norton & Company, on sale tomorrow) in The Atlantic just out this morning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

❗️I hope to see you tomorrow at 10am the Supreme Court, to rally for the rights of unhoused people! If you can’t make it there, participate in a local event. #HomelessnessIsSolvable !
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Was this written by a corporate jet?

I’ve spent months working with the Volkswagen Chattanooga workers, helping them tell their stories in the media. Here’s what last night’s victory means for all the workers I have gotten to know…🧵

On the UAW win today in Tennessee: “Together, these union wins have helped raise wages and demonstrate once again that the middle-class built America and that unions are still building and expanding the middle class for all workers.” ⁦President Biden⁩ whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

.President Biden on UAW vote in TN
“Let me be clear to the Republican governors that tried to undermine this vote: there is nothing to fear from American workers using their voice and their legal right to form a union if they so choose.”

NEW: Rents are up 20% since 2020. And a housing cartel's algorithm could be to blame.

RealPage, a software company, allegedly works with landlords to drive up rents across the country.

This is an illegal price-fixing conspiracy. And it's forcing Americans into homelessness.

We hereby call this meeting of The Tortured Prices Department to order…

Thank you, Suzanne Lynch of POLITICO, for talking to me about a wealth tax politico.com/newsletters/gl…

Proctor and Gamble will “spark a lot more fun and joy” by slashing the price of diapers than they will by selling toilet bombs. apple.news/AWexWMmT4RESDo…

'Welcome to pricing hell.'

It doesn't have to be this way — we can choose policies that free us from the uncertainty and budgetary pain of greedflation-driven dynamic pricing.

A must-read if you're concerned about junk fees and Uber-style pricing for everyday goods:

If the UAW wins the Volkswagen election that started today, 'it may mean that Shawn Fain is the real thing, and he’s going to deliver on his promise to totally unionize auto production in this country,' says prominent management-side lawyer Roger King bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Finally connected with Tara Dawson McGuinness and her amazing lab work—implementation is everything —with Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦. Thank you Hilary Cottam for connecting us. Sisters dedicated to building capability, capacity and courage to help catalyze experimentation and dynamism in the public

Republicans: objectively pro-junk fee prospect.org/politics/2024-…

New freakanomics chapter just dropped. Why Walmart is just like your drug dealer. The economics of scaleflation.