The company's pricing strategy is grabbing headlines at a time affordability has become a major issue for U.S. consumers. Instacart customers are unknowingly participating in widespread algorithmic ...

Among the nation’s 100 largest metro area housing markets, no major market saw greater home price appreciation during the Pandemic Housing Boom than Austin, TX—where home prices surged a staggering 72 ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...

Valve has been cooking up hardware lately. They delivered a VR headset that was successful, and then they delivered the behemoth of a handheld PC, the Steam Deck. However, before that, they tried to ...

A new report finds that homebuyers are receiving some of the steepest price discounts on record as sellers adjust their expectations. Zillow found that the typical listing in the U.S. had $25,000 in ...

Valve is once again attempting to break into the hardware market with its upcoming Steam Machine gaming PC. The success of the Steam Deck likely emboldened Valve to take another shot at selling ...

The U.S. housing market is going to face a price correction “worse than 2008,” according to housing analyst Melody Wright, who expects home prices to drop in half starting as soon as next year. “I see ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A rumor surrounding the price of the Steam Machine has fans believing the device is already a flop ...

Valve has provided the strongest indication yet that the Steam Machine price will be set with similar performance PCs in mind, and confirmed it has no plans to subsidize the hardware like console ...

After a long week of player and industry speculation, gaming giant Valve confirms its new Steam Machine home console will not be priced like a console, a carefully-worded disclosure that all but ...

Valve shook up the gaming world with the announcement of the Steam Machine, but we're all still curious about the million-dollar question of pricing. While there's plenty of speculation, we finally ...