My dude, corporations were putting in their earnings reports for the COVID years that they were having record profits because they were using COVID-based supply disruptions to increase their prices. Even a basic knowledge of economics would lead one to understand that if supply for a good becomes limited, demand stays the same, and profits go up, it could only be because the price of that good has significantly increased as well.
The average price of coca-cola during this period of time, adjusting for inflation, has been $1.89, and the most current price of $2.69 is 42.33% above that average.
during those years the corporate/investors focus was on market share growth, so they purposely went for low prices or free when possible. when the money spigot turned off things switched from growth to profit/dividend and consumers are stuck.
Yes, the low interest rates we had for years meant basically free money for all these companies in addition to the low car loan and mortgage rates that the rest of us benefitted from. Interest rates being low was a tool used to pull us out of the recession but nobody had the balls to raise them back when things turned around because you can’t win elections by forcing people to take their medicine.
You can’t just throw an image up. You have to source it or we’re going to assume you made it in MSPaint. But you’re already showing signs of not understanding what inflation is. It is not some stand alone year by year metric. It’s a velocity measurement. Like your car’s speedometer. You drove X number of miles in Y time. Instead here it’s you rose X points in 1 year. The previous points do not go away. The wage increases from year 4 do not magically erase inflation from years 1-3, unless they beat year 4 inflation by the the sum of inflation from years 1-3.
Where in my comment do I even mention interest rates? At any rate, you’re not wrong that they’re supposed to curb inflation but they haven’t. You’re own source says-
Leila Bengali decomposes inflation into interest-rate responsive and unresponsive categories. (whether each inflation category has historically declined >after a surprise interest rate hike)
Current excess inflation is entirely due to the unresponsive categories.
That’s that flat red section. It’s unresponsive to the rate change. You can see the blue section responded even before the FED actually made the change. That’s when the FED made statements about raising the rate. So we can see that the responsive section was very responsive. But the unresponsive section is keeping rates from properly coming down.
You have a point in that corporations align closely with human greed. However, corporations are anti-social and amoral unlike human beings. We need them to serve humanity and not the other way round. They’re currently taking too much too quickly.
Fucking euphemisms for ‘corporate greed’.
So for like a dozen years between 2008 to 2020 corporations weren’t greedy?
Corporations finding a new way to be greedy does not mean they were not greedy in the past as well.
But asserting that the new inflation is a result of corporate greed does imply that the corporate greed is a new factor. It doesn’t make any sense
My dude, corporations were putting in their earnings reports for the COVID years that they were having record profits because they were using COVID-based supply disruptions to increase their prices. Even a basic knowledge of economics would lead one to understand that if supply for a good becomes limited, demand stays the same, and profits go up, it could only be because the price of that good has significantly increased as well.
Profits go up per unit, but not necessarily the total amount since you’re moving fewer units
Except corporations were posting record profits. So both profit per unit and overall profitability were increased.
They took advantage of COVID to fleece the public.
If you’ve been paying attention you would have seen that profit margins were going up as well
For some companies, sure.
Intel and AMD, for example, already sold so many computers during the pandemic their profits are down now
No it implies there was a factor restraining that greed before and it’s been removed.
No, just a new type.
How is it a new type? What’s new?
Getting away with price gouging is new.
So the greed is constant, but the market let companies raise prices.
The market gave them an excuse to raise prices.
You don’t have to take my word for it.
https://moneynotmoney.com/historical-price-of-coca-cola-in-united-states/
The greed isn’t the new part. The new part is lack of competition after thousands of small businesses got forcibly shut down in 2020.
That’s what I’m saying, pandemic, shutdowns, stimulus, etc. is the new thing
The Socratic method requires someone else who’s leaning in. When people are leaning out you just gotta come right out and say the thing.
during those years the corporate/investors focus was on market share growth, so they purposely went for low prices or free when possible. when the money spigot turned off things switched from growth to profit/dividend and consumers are stuck.
Yes, the low interest rates we had for years meant basically free money for all these companies in addition to the low car loan and mortgage rates that the rest of us benefitted from. Interest rates being low was a tool used to pull us out of the recession but nobody had the balls to raise them back when things turned around because you can’t win elections by forcing people to take their medicine.
It’s the opposite, inflation actually decreased after the rate hikes.
which rate hikes/time period are you talking about?
We had the most inflation in 2022, then the Fed increased rates and the inflation went lower as the rates went higher
You can’t just throw an image up. You have to source it or we’re going to assume you made it in MSPaint. But you’re already showing signs of not understanding what inflation is. It is not some stand alone year by year metric. It’s a velocity measurement. Like your car’s speedometer. You drove X number of miles in Y time. Instead here it’s you rose X points in 1 year. The previous points do not go away. The wage increases from year 4 do not magically erase inflation from years 1-3, unless they beat year 4 inflation by the the sum of inflation from years 1-3.
Source:
https://twitter.com/ah_shapiro/status/1777696160691704213
You’re the one who doesn’t know that inflation is curbed by interest rates, since you proposed interest rates increase inflation
In fact, higher interest rates decrease inflation
Where in my comment do I even mention interest rates? At any rate, you’re not wrong that they’re supposed to curb inflation but they haven’t. You’re own source says-
That’s that flat red section. It’s unresponsive to the rate change. You can see the blue section responded even before the FED actually made the change. That’s when the FED made statements about raising the rate. So we can see that the responsive section was very responsive. But the unresponsive section is keeping rates from properly coming down.
It’s societal greed.
All of the people criticizing those maximizing profit would do the same in their position.
You have a point in that corporations align closely with human greed. However, corporations are anti-social and amoral unlike human beings. We need them to serve humanity and not the other way round. They’re currently taking too much too quickly.
no, I would not apply for a job at McKinsey.