https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study
"Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows
Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to
deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes"
Certainly we have seen the effect of increases to global prices
affecting our domestic economy, but we have our own examples of such Greedflation with our banks and supermarkets.
It will be interesting to see how NActFirst get on trying to restrict
such greedflation here - especially with an ex-National PM at the head
of one of the largest banks!
On 2023-12-08, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:We benefited from this with exports, and suffered with respect to
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study
"Greedflation: corporate profiteering ?significantly? boosted global
prices, study shows
Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to
deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes"
Good, they are trying it on to see what the market will bear. That is >capitalism in action. If people stop buying from them them the company will >go bust.
Certainly we have seen the effect of increases to global prices
affecting our domestic economy, but we have our own examples of such
Greedflation with our banks and supermarkets.
Inflation does this, this is why it is not a good thng.
For most businesses normal laws of demand and supply are dominant - so restaurants are finding life tough as the population finds that they
It will be interesting to see how NActFirst get on trying to restrict
such greedflation here - especially with an ex-National PM at the head
of one of the largest banks!
Now let us all remember that Labour, I say Labour caused this mess by simply >not gettting off the idealogical horse as they rode into months of spend >spend and spend again. Do not spare the horses either.
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