Comment on Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds
roscoe@startrek.website 9 months ago
If you want to know how bad we’re being fucked, search for the PPI, the producer price index. CPI, the one we always hear about, is the measure of inflation to us, the consumer. The PPI is the measure of inflation to producers, what they pay for goods and services to produce the goods and services we buy.
The PPI has been back to “normal” for a while now. Pretty much as soon as the post COVID logistics issues were mostly ironed out. The difference between PPI and CPI changes is pure profit.
We don’t get fault articles on the PPI though, I wonder why.
mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Corps took a hit due to covid lockdowns, they wanted to get the profit they missed back and then just said fuck it, they are used to these prices is what I’m hearing.