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Pat Garofalo
Personal blog · boondoggle.substack.compoliticseconomics
Pat Garofalo writes Boondoggle, a personal blog at boondoggle.substack.com about politics and economics. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Pat Garofalo's Substack posts on FTC fee rules, NDAs and title insurance as background or sources. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Corporate monopolies are ripping off our states, cities, and communities. Find out why and how to stop it.
What Hacker News says?
> As an aside, I don't know why AirBnB can't get their shit together and push all the fees to the map. My guess is that most of those fees are not per night? Well make the front matter say "$120/night + fees" and when you select your dates you know what the total cost is. The problem is that everyone says we want this then votes with our wallet that we don’t. Stubhub once tried to be upfront honest about fees. Booki…
Comment linking /p/stubhub-and-the-case-of-the-stubborn
on “FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12”Submitted Personalized Pricing by Algorithm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI see that the opinion author, Pat Garofalo, wrote a book [0], and has a substack [1]. If anyone wants to get the gist from a different source. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40122067-the-billionaire... [1] https://boondoggle.substack.com/
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on “How Amazon, Google and Other Companies Exploit NDAs”Submitted The Cult of Data Centers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.businessinsider.com/title-insurance-scam-mortgag... https://www.npr.org/2022/11/27/1139307743/title-insurance-is... https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/break-up-big-title-insuran... https://www.iowabar.org/?pg=IowaBarBlog&blAction=showEntry&b...
Comment linking /p/break-up-big-title-insurance
on “US Starts Wide Review of Title, Closing Fees for Mortgages”
