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bucolic_frolic

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3. The economic models of inflation were hatched in the 1970s

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Mon May 9, 2022, 07:21 AM

May 2022

Back then little was known about pricing because there was less available financial information and perhaps because it was a regulated economy where prices were often contractually set. Today there is much more flexibility on both.

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Blaming Workers, Hiding Profits in Primetime Inflation Coverage [View all] ck4829 May 2022 OP

Shell reports record $9.1 billion profit as oil prices soar in first-quarter Botany May 2022 #1

Media has been biased, and refuses showing how corporate greed is a big part of inflation, duforsure May 2022 #2

The economic models of inflation were hatched in the 1970s bucolic_frolic May 2022 #3

Does the media think if we go full-on authoritarian it will be business as usual? CrispyQ May 2022 #4

a couple good price gouging suits would fox this. mopinko May 2022 #5