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How Wall Street Created An Energy Crisis (And Is Making You Pay For It)

youtube.com/watch?v=PymMikfkiL

Investor-owned utilities are building expensive & polluting energy projects to drive up shareholder profits. The scheme enriches massive firms like Blackrock and Vanguard.
Meanwhile customers are forced to pay higher and higher energy bills.

Google Australia is increasing the price of youtube premium family plan to $40AUD a month. What a fucking joke. It was too expensive at the last increase ($32/month), but the wife begged me she didnt want to deal with adblockers.

This might be the end of it, no features or value in that increase.

Tomatoes are $12+ a kilo at Colesworth. I would guess supply has been impacted by the floods and I understand.

What I want to know is, are the supermarkets paying more to their remaining suppliers to get stock or are they paying the normal, low, contract price and price gouging us in the shops?

"The day after President Donald Trump announced his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, pricing guru Craig Zawada held an urgent summit for his clients. The global economy was roiling with anxiety, and stocks were in a tailspin, but Zawada had a more hopeful message to impart: For the businesses deploying his company’s “smart pricing” software, this was a rare opportunity.

“There is perhaps more of a window to make changes to your pricing than there has been before,” Zawada said. Consumers, he explained, were bracing themselves for tariff sticker shock: “Customers expect change.”

“Now,” he said, “is the time to take advantage.”

Zawada works for PROS Holdings, a company that provides software services helping companies price their products, tailored in particular to airlines. He’s part of a cottage industry of “pricing optimization” consultants who, using lessons learned from pandemic price increases, are advising companies across industries on how to hike prices in response to tariffs or even just the threat of tariffs — and then keep them high.

Republican Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson, the nation’s top antitrust cop, has been warning companies that enforcers are prepared to take action against tariff profiteering. Yet he has effectively given the consultant class a “green light,” as one former FTC official told The Lever, by rolling back an inquiry scrutinizing their practices."

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The Lever · How Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His TariffsBy Katya Schwenk

Here's the farm that supplies the eggs we have been buying from PCC Markets (not sure what the letters PCC stand for any more, perhaps Puget Community Coop?) and they haven't been above $8.50 since Avian Influenza Virus H5N1 has been decimating egg laying flocks. The chickens eat organic food and are not subjected to antibiotics and hormones. We're on our own with renegade White House DOA, but we trust these farmers. Other farms are available.
#eggprices #pricegouging

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