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Pricing in the News

Every business day, we scan the Wall Street Journal for stories that illuminate pricing concepts in the real world. We don’t restate the news — we identify the pricing mechanics at work and what they mean for practitioners. Click through to read the full story

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6/26 Pricing in the News

Today's paper is a study in pricing power reversals — what happens when the party that held pricing control loses it, and the party that was controlled seizes it back. Five stories across technology, monetary policy, geopolitics, housing, and automotive each capture a moment in which pricing authority is being contested, transferred, or newly asserted. The through-line is unsettling: pricing power doesn't stay put. It migrates toward whoever controls a scarce resource, a crit

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