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Healthcare’s Economic Risk Is Too Big to Ignore: Jonathan Levin

Consumer confidence is collapsing, hiring is weak and the housing market is largely frozen. All of which serves to underscore that the US economy is only holding up because of the boom in artificial intelligence and an aging population spending ever more on healthcare. Although the former seems to garner all the attention these days, the latter is…

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The FTC is sending money to people affected by GOAT marketplace’s “deceptive” policies.In 2024, the FTC alleged that GOAT didn’t mail “some priority processing orders as fast as promised” and didn’t have a system in place to honor its “Buyer Protection” policy that promised full refunds for products found to be incorrect. Last year, GOAT settled with the FTC and refunded more than $736,000, and today, the FTC is distributing payments…

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Lawsuit alleges McDonald's is rigging its prices based on location — and algorithmWhen the first McDonald's restaurant opened in 1940, computers as we know them didn't exist yet. Today, they could be the reason it's seemingly unaffordable to eat fast food. 'AI does not set the price of a Big Mac or ⁠any other menu item.' A lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago is alleging that higher prices at McDonald's are a result of…