politics Coronavirus scams prove a federal anti-price gouging law is needed — Amazon's VP of public policy Xeni Jardin
coronavirus Amazon and eBay punished coronavirus price-gougers by making it harder for the rest of us to get hand sanitizer Thom Dunn
Business Amazon bans 1+ million coronavirus products for false claims, addresses price-gouging for masks and sanitizer Xeni Jardin
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late stage capitalism Congressional shaming prompts notorious Pentagon price-gouger to refund $16.1m Cory Doctorow
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coronavirus And now, a ditty about the guy who bought up 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer in Tennessee Rusty Blazenhoff
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 Bernie Sanders has a “High-Speed Internet for All” plan, $150 billion for public broadband Xeni Jardin
economics Profile of Mariana Mazzucato, the economist who's swaying both left and right politicians with talk of "the entrepreneurial state" Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow