Business
HEGE Series
Innovation
International Journal of Innovation Management
Why Innovations Fail - The Case of Active and Passive Innovation Resistance
Pricing strategy
Attracting Early Adopters: Best Way to Overcome Consumer Resistance to Innovative Products
Selling strategy
No, Extended Warranties Are Usually Not Worth It
7 reasons why you should play music in your store
Consumer resistance
Consumer resistance
The Tactics of Consumer Resistance: Group Action and Marketplace Exit
Study Reveals Consumer Resistance to Apple Watch
The Free Speech Movement
4. Appendix IV: Chronology of the Free Speech Movement within the Larger Context of Surrounding Historical Events
October 2, 1946: At a medical symposium at the University of Buffalo, Dr. William Rienkoff announces a possible link between cigarette smoking and cancer.
Consumer Watchdog
The history of the deregulation debacle Dec 8, 2000
Why Is Healthcare So Expensive In The United States? Sep 22, 2000
Can L.A. County Turn Around Its Nursing Home Debacle? Sep 30, 2000
Consumer Confidential: Why Are Glasses So Expensive? The Eyewear Industry Would Prefer Keeping That Blurry Jan 22, 2019
Five Lumps of Coal From Health Insurers To Avoid When Buying Health Plans This Holiday Season Dec 16, 2015
Revenge of the Insurance Deregulators Aug 7, 2012
Revenge of the Insurance Deregulators Part 2 Aug 6, 2012
Tips For Selecting Long-Term Life Insurance Feb 8, 2012
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Texas Public Policy Foundation | SourceWatch.org
“Most think tanks work for their funders and TPPF’s donors are a Who’s Who of Texas polluters, giant utilities and big insurance companies. TPPF is thinking the way its donors want it to think.” — Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice
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"Free Enterprise", "Liberty", "Personal Responsibility" — same age old recipe for bilking the public
Thomas Phillippon
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
The lack of competition is explained largely by policy choices, influenced by lobbying and campaign finance contributions...[A]cross time, state, and industries, corporate lobbying and campaign finance contributions lead to barriers to entry and regulations that protect large incumbents
Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon
Big Business Is Overcharging You $5,000 a Year | NYTimes
Brookings Institution - The Great Reversal
Income
Inequality
Salary Details for a Software Engineer III at Walmart
How much do Walmart associates make?
Schemes & Scams
Walmart links credit card rewards to in-store discounts
What this Chain Store Age: The Business of Retail article does NOT disclose, is that Walmart is CHARGING customers to redeem their reward points at checkout. Before a self-checkout Walmart transaction closes, customers must choose whether to apply $10.00 of their rewards points towards their purchase or decline doing so. If accepting rewards application, they will be charged 25% extra in rewards points for the privilege of using their rewards points at Walmart.
IOW Walmart is STEALING from customers under the guise of offering them a "service".
Credit card law would give big-box stores payday at community's expense
To understand the harm CCCA is going to cause, we can look back about 13 years ago when a similar debit card policy passed. In 2010, a near-identical policy called the Durbin Amendment succeeded in bringing routing mandates to the debit card market. Routing mandates helped drive down interchange rates (the rates merchants pay to process electronic transactions) so that retailers could save money. Big-box stores saw immediately lower interchange rates and have since raked in $106 billion in extra revenue.
The policy is responsible for redistributing more than $23 billion directly from consumers to retailers like Target and Walmart over the last decade. That’s because, first and foremost, big-box stores hoarded their savings instead of using them to lower prices, and consumers got nothing. A Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond study in 2014 observed that 77 percent of retailers failed to lower prices and 21 percent raised prices after the policy went into effect.
No, Congress is not considering a law that would ban credit card rewards
Love your credit card points? A bill that may change them is still on the table
Big banks ply D.C. with free donuts as part of a turbo-charged effort to save junk fees
Big-box banks: Congress' plan to lower credit-card swipe fees pits retailers against banks
Washington Takes Aim at Credit Card Processing Fees
Is Congress Going to Kill Credit Card Rewards?
Hands Off My Rewards