85: Rising Prices & Price Gouging
Rethinking Politics
English - April 15, 2022 06:43 - 1 hour - 108 MBGovernment News Politics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With soaring inflation and rising gas prices, everyone agrees that the rising prices are terrible. One of the common causes that people point to is greedy corporations that are raising prices when they don’t need to. We discuss this theory and the economic principles at play in the price gouging and consider profit vs profiteering.
Music: Beauty Flow by Kevin Macleod
Photo: Yassine Khalfalli on Unsplash