{"id":517370,"date":"2021-11-20T21:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T02:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517370"},"modified":"2021-11-20T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T02:36:48","slug":"corporations-are-using-inflation-as-an-excuse-to-raise-prices-and-make-fatter-profits-and-its-making-the-problem-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517370","title":{"rendered":"Corporations are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices and make fatter profits \u2014 and it\u2019s making the problem worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Large companies tend to use periods of rising inflation to boost their profit margins.<\/li>\n<li>Having fewer competitors in an industry makes it even easier for companies to raise prices.<\/li>\n<li>The current inflation rate is a \u201csymptom\u201d of corporate consolidation, Robert Reich says.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/corporations-using-inflation-as-excuse-to-reap-fatter-profits-reich-2021-11\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/corporations-using-inflation-as-excuse-to-reap-fatter-profits-reich-2021-11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large companies tend to use periods of rising inflation to boost their profit margins. Having fewer competitors in an industry makes it even easier for companies to raise prices. The current inflation rate is a \u201csymptom\u201d of corporate consolidation, Robert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}