Mark Cuban’s Blueprint for Affordable Healthcare
Mark Cuban’s Blueprint for Affordable Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDnIYznB6kc
Tag: prices
Why Everything Is More Expensive | David Dayen | TMR
Private electricity companies are supposed to have their prices managed by governments because they form natural monopolies, but they make tons of money because they capture the government and screw over the electricity user.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfRKOlqRG8s
Trump Blames Illegal Immigrants for High Housing Prices. Blame Zoning Instead.
“Low-skilled immigrants would expand the supply of housing more than they increase demand, if local governments would just allow new construction.”
https://reason.com/2025/12/18/trump-blames-illegal-immigrants-for-high-housing-prices-blame-zoning-instead/
The Affordability Con Job
“Affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody,” said President Donald Trump during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting at the White House, saying it’s a “fake narrative” and “con job” that Democrats manufactured to hoodwink the public.
“They just say the word,” Trump added. “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. They just say it—affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything.”
In classic Trump fashion, this is an about-face. Just a few days prior, he declared on Truth Social, “I AM THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT” when touting falling drug prices.”
“The word affordability is a Democrat scam,” he said. “They say it, and then they go on to the next subject. And everyone thinks, ‘Oh, they had lower prices.'”
https://reason.com/2025/12/03/the-affordability-con-job/
How Trump’s Tariffs Are Everywhere and Nowhere | Trumponomics
Estimates on who is paying for tariffs so far break down like this: 4% paid for by foreigners; 70% paid for by importing companies; 26% paid for by American consumers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTy5KVbnCE
‘Only so long’ before Trump’s tariff costs hit consumers, businesses warn
“Retail giants have proven more adept than expected at cushioning the blow of President Donald Trump’s steep tariff hikes over the spring and summer, keeping prices for consumer goods from surging this year by as much as many economists anticipated. But business executives and corporate analysts are warning they can’t do that forever.
“In the first half of next year, we are concerned that consumers are going to start to see the price increases become a little more broad based, and there may not be all the [holiday sales] promotion to help clear through some of that,” Joseph Feldman, a senior managing director at Telsey Advisory Group, who focuses on the retail sector, said in an interview. “So that could be a little bit of a sticker shock for some people.”
That could come as soon as January, according to economists, as holiday discounts come to a close and retailers run low on inventory they secured at pre-tariff prices.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/trumps-tariff-costs-consumers-00679261
The Sindex: Price of Audio Equipment Rises 12 Percent Under Trump Tariffs
“While annual inflation through August 2025 came in at 2.9 percent, the price of audio equipment like new speakers had risen 12.2 percent. “They’re some of the few electronics not exempt from tariffs (most smartphones/computers are still tariff-free),””
https://reason.com/2025/11/20/the-sindex-speak-up/
Is the Poverty Line Really $100,000?
“”Walmart just announced that the cost of their standard Thanksgiving meal is reduced by 25 percent this year from last year,” Trump said recently, failing to account for the fact that the price change is due to Walmart…changing the goods offered via their Thanksgiving meal bundle (and drastically shrinking its size) to get prices lower for cost-burdened consumers.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/26/is-the-poverty-line-really-100000/
Trump’s $1.1 Billion Tax Hike on Toys and Games
“”The U.S. is our least trustworthy trading partner right now—and I say that as an American,” Price Johnson, COO of Cephalofair Games, told Reason last month. “I can’t trust what the policy is going to be tomorrow, let alone next week.”
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The Yale Budget Lab estimates that Trump’s tariffs will cost the average American household around $1,700 this year.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/28/trumps-1-1-billion-tax-hike-on-toys-and-games/
Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them, and U.S. Plans Gaza Compounds
Trump brags about deals that will save Medicare money by negotiating drug prices. He could do this due to a law signed by Biden that no Republicans supported.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8nIqB581Cs