"Profits" during #inflation are misleading. It shows "profit" against cheaper inputs.
If you have paid for your inputs (products, materials, etc) $1M before inflation, but during year you see that inputs are getting more and more expensive, you HAVE to rise prices in advace to prepare for upcomming higher invoice for next batch of inputs, because how are you gonna pay $1,2M next time if revenue was only $1,1M (inputs + margin for salaries and other expenses)?
@Talkless That would make sense if large companies would just raise prices to cover higher costs. But they don’t. They’ve figured out they can raise prices much higher than they need to and people don’t have alternatives. #BasicMath and probably #BasicEconomics
I’m skilled at both.
Economists are reconsidering how much corporate profits drive inflation : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/19/1177180972/economists-are-reconsidering-how-much-corporate-profits-drive-inflation#:~:text=Economists%20are%20reconsidering%20how%20much%20corporate%20profits%20drive%20inflation%20In,was%20because%20of%20corporate%20profits.
> Economists are reconsidering how much corporate profits drive inflation
Fiat money-printer-funded economics say money printer does not cause inflation, it's actually corporate greed! 😂
Stop reading propaganda, learn how humans act in scarce resource world.
Economics is about allocating scare resources having alternative uses.
More money but same amount of resources means prices rise, as only with price mechanism you can decide to whom you sell those scarce resources.