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01Best-Before Dates, Soda and Canadian Food Prices: What the Rules Require, What Longer Dates Would Save, and What Is Driving Grocery PricesCanadian law does not require a best-before date on soda. Federal rules only require date labels on prepackaged foods that keep 90 days or less, so the one-year date on a 2L Pepsi is the manufacturer's own quality claim, not a regulation.…ResearchPrices & markets34k characters19 Oct
02Measuring the economy with new instruments: scraped prices, card-spending trackers and satellite imageryFour old arguments explain why an economy resists being computed, and none of them have gone away. What computation did change is measurement — scraped prices, card records and satellite images that report what is happening weeks before the official numbers do.ArticlePrices & markets57 quotes · 1 source · 9 min10 Oct
03Is RealPage-style rent software being used in Canada?I found no equivalent enforcement action — a genuine open questionOpen problemPrices & marketsOpen9 Oct
04How common is algorithmic price collusion in real markets?Calvano et al. is robust experimentally; real-world prevalence and detectability remain open.Open problemPrices & marketsOpen9 Oct
05Personalised pricing software and the return of haggling, run from the seller's sideFrom the middle of the nineteenth century everyone paid the number on the tag. Pricing software is bringing the bazaar back — except this time the seller reads you, and you see nothing.ArticlePrices & markets48 quotes · 9 min3 Oct
06The price as instructionA price computed for one buyer from their data, rather than posted for everyone — the same number, carrying the seller's model of you instead of the market's signal. Extends Gardiner Means's “administered prices” (1930s) from the boardroom to the shopper.ConceptPrices & marketsNo prior use found3 Oct
07Does the same basket cost more on your phone?Nobody has measured whether online prices in Canada change with your location, device or history. The US has a federal study; Canada has little enforcement and almost no documentation.Open problemPrices & marketsOpen3 Oct
08Engineered Booms and Busts: How Policy Drives Canada's Housing-Led RecessionsAcross five decades, Canada's recessions are not random market accidents but are repeatedly detonated by identifiable policy decisions — above all Bank of Canada interest-rate cycles acting on an economy where housing and…ResearchPrices & markets84 figures · 15 sources27 Sep
09RealPage North: Algorithmic Rent-Setting in Canada — Forensic Investigation and Detection-Instrument FeasibilityThe genuine Canadian story is forensic-historical, not live: algorithmic revenue-management software (RealPage's YieldStar/AIRM/LRO; Yardi's Revenue IQ/RENTmaximizer) was used here from at least 2017, grew gradually, then…ResearchPrices & markets17 figures · 2 sources27 Sep
10Participation Income, Earned-Income Supplements, and Work-Sharing: A Policy Framework for CanadaParticipation income is the stronger bet for Canada.ResearchPrices & markets47 figures · 13 sourcesSep
11The Architecture of the Forensic Video Essay: How the Best Investigative Channels Build Their ScriptsMEANS") until roughly the 60–75% mark — the "forensic turn" that separates an essay from a news report.ResearchPrices & markets9 figures · 6 sourcesSep
12The Telescope Problem: Where AI and Real-Time Data Make the Invisible Economy LegibleThe real white space is instrumentation, not theory. Economics resists being "solved" by computation for structural reasons (reflexivity, the Lucas Critique, Goodhart's Law, performativity) — but those same limits…ResearchPrices & markets30 figures · 9 sourcesSep