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Business History podcast episode on Jay Gould, a 19th-century 'Robber Baron' who built his fortune through stock manipulation and bribery rather than producing goods or services, prompting reforms aimed at preventing similar figures from gaining power.
Wikipedia overview of the nonprofit's history since its 1936 founding as Consumers Union, its no-freebies/secret-shopper testing methodology, and a rundown of tests that forced manufacturer action — including the Tesla Model 3 brake fix, the Lexus GX 460 recall, the Safari bug behind inconsistent 2016 MacBook Pro battery life, and Instacart ending its AI dynamic-pricing experiment in 2025.