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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Michael Rohatyn & Lindsay Owens

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Michael Rohatyn details his documentary Drop Dead City, an extraordinary portrait of New York City’s fiscal crisis in the 1970s.The Groundwork Collective’s Lindsay Owens examines their blockbuster reporting on Instacart’s use of dynamic pricing.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:13.2

We're on vacation, but that doesn't mean we don't have a great show for you today.

0:17.0

Michael Rohatton on his his documentary Drop Dead City.

0:21.4

It's an amazing portrait of New York City in the 70s when it ran out of money.

0:26.5

But first, we have the Groundwork Collective's own Lindsay Owens on the Groundwork Collective's Blockbuster Reporting on Instacart's dynamic pricing scam.

0:38.7

Welcome to fast politics.

0:41.0

Thanks for having me.

0:42.0

Explain to us what the Groundwork Collective is and how you got involved.

0:47.4

So Groundwork Collaborative is a think tank based in Washington, D.C.

0:51.3

We're focused on building an economy that works for all of us. The last five

0:56.1

years or so, that has meant we have been laser focused on high prices, cost of living, affordability.

1:03.7

This is the top issue that Americans care about. In every poll that we have fielded for five years now,

1:09.8

Americans are laser focused on the price of groceries,

1:12.4

the price of housing, the price of health care, the fact that inflation was rising, now we have

1:16.8

Trump's tariffs. And so we spend most of our time thinking about why are price is high, who is to blame

1:24.1

what we can do about it. Okay. So this gets us to Instacard discuss.

1:30.5

Yeah.

1:31.5

So look, Americans are really frustrated with grocery prices.

1:35.3

If you ask Americans which prices vex them the most, they say grocery prices.

1:41.4

That's not super surprising because you buy a lot of groceries, right? You don't

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