UNDERSTANDING ‘GREEDFLATION’

TUE, 7/25/2023 – BY ON THE MEDIA, HOSTED BY MICAH LOEWINGER (Occupy.com) THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON WNYC / NPR Listen here: https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/wnycstudios/#file=/audio/json/1337531/&share=1 In late 2021, Isabella Weber, an economist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst published a paper with a new idea. The theory, what she called “seller’s inflation,” sought to address… Continue reading

‘We may be looking at the end of capitalism’: One of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks warns ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far

BY WILL DANIEL April 5, 2023 at 1:53 PM PDT (Fortune.com) A People’s Assembly Against Austerity protest on Oct. 2, 2022, in Birmingham, U.K. MIKE KEMP—IN PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES When costs go up, so do profits? That’s not how capitalism is supposed to work, but that is the recent trend. For over… Continue reading