By KIM BELLARD
Even before the war – oops: special operation, excursion, or whatever your preferred term is – with Iran started, people were complaining about how expensive things are. Home ownership for first time buyers seems out of reach. Sure, egg prices may be down from the late stages of the Biden Administration (thank you so much, bird flu!), but most of us are still dismayed by our grocery...
The strongest version of this narrative highlights systemic inefficiencies in two critical markets—healthcare and automobiles—where consumers face opaque pricing, information asymmetry, and rising costs. The article effectively contrasts the relative simplicity of car purchases (where middlemen like Delivrd can exploit transparency gaps) with the intractable complexity of healthcare, where even insurers act as self-interested middlemen. The critique of conservative "transparency" solutions is sh...