Locked In, Priced Out
by Longreads
Longreads— "The Appeal’s 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent."
Tech Times—Peacock Price Hike: How to Watch 2024 Paris Olympics at Old Subscription Price. Peacock is raising its prices before the Olympics, but there's a way out of it. There is an upcoming Peacock price hike from NBCUniversal right before the 2024 Paris Olympics begin.
Bitcoin News—Standard Chartered Warns Bitcoin Price Could Fall to $50K – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News. Standard Chartered Bank has warned that bitcoin’s price could potentially decline to $50,000. The head of digital asset research at the bank attributed this forecast to a mix of crypto-specific factors and broader macroeconomic influences. Additionally, he warned about the risk of liquidation for some spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) positions, emphasizing that over half of […]
Sky News—Lowest shop price inflation since December 2021 as some prices actually fall - BRC says. Items bought in shops are becoming more expensive at the slowest pace in more than two years, according to latest industry figures which show that some prices are actually falling. It means that goods, such as clothes and food, are becoming more costly but far less than before, according to the shop price index from the trade organisation for UK retailers, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), and retail behaviour researchers NielsenIQ. Why have some prices fallen? The shop price index for April...