coronavirus Owner of a 7-Eleven arrested for selling homemade hand sanitizer that burned kids' skin Mark Frauenfelder
canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei
Health Care A new drug that may help lots of people will apparently be more expensive than it should Jason Weisberger
late stage capitalism Small business in Wisconsin cancels its unusably bad internet service from Frontier; Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee Cory Doctorow
law The TRUE Fees Act: legislative proposal to force cable/ISP companies to advertise the true cost of their services, inclusive of surcharges Cory Doctorow
Business "Spread Pricing" transparency reveals the millions CVS rakes in by gouging Medicare and prisons on prescription markups Cory Doctorow
health America's large hospital chains will start manufacturing generic drugs in order to beat shkrelic price-gouging Cory Doctorow
politics Coronavirus scams prove a federal anti-price gouging law is needed — Amazon's VP of public policy Xeni Jardin
coronavirus Here are the 5 kinds of pandemic villains who are making things worse for the rest of us Mark Frauenfelder
coronavirus And now, a ditty about the guy who bought up 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer in Tennessee Rusty Blazenhoff
coronavirus Amazon and eBay punished coronavirus price-gougers by making it harder for the rest of us to get hand sanitizer Thom Dunn
coronavirus Husband and wife team proudly reselling sanitizers and wipes at quadruple prices Mark Frauenfelder
coronavirus If you try to resell a face mask for profit in Japan, you could go to jail for a year Mark Frauenfelder
Business Amazon bans 1+ million coronavirus products for false claims, addresses price-gouging for masks and sanitizer Xeni Jardin