Jonathan #Nitzan and Shimshon #Bichler on #pricing:
"On the one hand, the profit target and markup built into the price reflect the firm’s power, while, on the other hand, that power, exercised by the high price, serves to restrict industry below its full capacity. The sabotage and the power to inflict it remain concealed, but their consequences are very real."
https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/accumulation-and-sabotage.html#fnref174 #inflation #prices
12 Accumulation and sabotage | CAPITAL AS POWER

12 Accumulation and sabotage | CAPITAL AS POWER

"The inflation rate signals instability in the social order. That instability, it seems, translates into capitalists’ fears about the future. When the price system is more unstable, capitalists discount present income more steeply."

in "The Ritual of Capitalization" by @blair_fix: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/06/02/the-ritual-of-capitalization/

#rituals #religion #inflation #prices #value #discountRate #finance #privateEquity #acquisition #valuation #capitalization #capitalizing #markup #money #property

The Ritual of Capitalization – Economics from the Top Down

I take a detailed look at the quantitative ritual that orders our social world.

Economics from the Top Down

@economics

- So if a bunch of corporations just decide to set higher prices, that's inflation?
- That's right.

A video by Jessica Burbank (via @Sui)
Also at: https://www.tiktok.com/@kaburbank/video/7106974872563191083?lang=en

#MMT #inflation #economy #economics #economics101 #money #tutorial #Fed #FedReserve #debt #interestRates #yields #prices #value #markup #CPI #MMTCowboy #beauty #feminity

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Inflation is the rise in prices 🧵

In a competitive market prices fluctuate: this is the case with energy.
For the rest, it's as if the providers impose their prices:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-30082024-ap

#price #prices #inflation #ECB #economy #services #shopping #money #GDP #market #markets #eu #europe #energy #euro

During 1992–2020, the USA had low and stable #inflation.

Despite massive federal deficit spending, the Fed met its 2% inflation target (or missed below it) for most of this era.

How come? There were no serious shortage of resources. (Thanks to: no cold war, globalization, bad working conditions, stable commodity supply, increase of greenhouse effect.)

#money #deficit #debt #interestRates #yields #price #pricing #prices #value #markup #economy #economics #economics101 #MMT #CPI #commodities