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Economy

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elleng

(137,338 posts)
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 08:20 PM Oct 2022

from Robert Reich: [View all]

Corporate profits only accounted for roughly 11% of price growth from 1979 to 2019.

Today, record corporate profits account for 53.9% of price increases.

Folks, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers asking for better wages.

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