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Delta is expanding its AI-based pricing to 20 percent of its network by the end of 2025.

Delta’s AI-Based Personalized Pricing Is Bad for Flyers. It Should Probably Be Banned.

Hal Singer

July 23, 2025

Six months after its creation, the Works Progress Administration employed about 2.7 million Americans.

Skip the Spending Plans. Head Directly to Government Jobs.

Hal Singer

May 29, 2025

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak at a Fight Oligarchy rally. K.M. Cannon / Las Vegas Review-Journal / TNS via Getty Images file

Progressives Need a New Toolkit to Fight Inflation

Hal Singer

May 10, 2025

Successful firms are firing workers to appease Wall Street. (Getty Images)

What Obligation Does a Successful Employer Owe Its Workers?

Hal Singer

February 19, 2025

Long lines form at Park City amid a ski patrol strike on Dec. 29, 2024. (Mariah Maynes/KSL NewsRadio)

When Market Forces Can’t Be Counted on to Protect Skiers

Hal Singer

January 10, 2025

Free trade deals caused many U.S. factories to close, sending jobs oversees and voters away from the Democratic Party. (Image: Getty)

The Neoliberal Critique of Trump’s Tariffs Finds Little Support in Economics or Among Voters

Hal Singer

December 13, 2024

JP Morgan’s Jaime Dimon is the Chairman of BPI, a bank trade association that sued the CFPB. Photo Credit: Al Drago for The New York Times

A New CFPB Rule Could Spark Competition in the Banking Industry

Hal Singer

October 27, 2024

An antitrust case against SpaceX might soon have liftoff. Photo credit: Joe Skipper/Reuters

The Antitrust Case Against SpaceX

Hal Singer

August 08, 2024

Are Hedge Funds and Private Equity Firms Driving Up the Cost of Housing?

Are Hedge Funds and Private Equity Firms Driving Up the Cost of Housing?

Hal Singer

July 12, 2024

Ever since the courts embraced Robert Bork’s revisionist history of antitrust’s goals, consumer welfare became antitrust’s loadstar.

Sorry Matt Yglesias, Hipster Antitrust Does Not Mean the Abandonment of Consumers. But It Does Mean New Ways to Protect Workers.

Hal Singer

June 12, 2024

The hypothetical monopolist test (HMT) serves as a shiny bright object, distracting the court from the anticompetitive harms.

The Not-So-Hypothetical Monopolist Test

Hal Singer

May 28, 2024

Angus Deaton's Economics in America explores the causes of inequality and offers a roadmap how to tame it.

Did Economists Break the Economy? Review of Deaton’s Economics in America

Hal Singer

April 11, 2024