Americans Blame Corporate Profits and CEO Salaries for Price ...

85 percent of Americans say “corporations being greedy and raising prices to make record profits” is a cause of inflation, with a majority who ...

As they should. Wages haven't increased and prices continue to go up. It can't be inflation, because if that's the case these “record profits” ...

Greedflation: Corporate Profits Are the Driver of High Prices

Depending on who's doing the talking, inflation can be blamed on President Joe Biden or on his predecessor, Donald Trump. But one—and perhaps ...

Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds

The report's authors scoured corporate earnings calls and found executives bragging to shareholders about keeping prices high and widening ...

CEOs Inflated Their Paychecks — and Our Prices - Jacobin

The AFL-CIO report compiles a host of other stunning examples involving companies across the economy. In case after case, the very industries ...

'Greedflation' caused more than half of last year's inflation surge ...

Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found.

Grocery price inflation: Is corporate greed to blame? - NPR

Markups at grocery stores were slower to grow, slower to decline. In early 2024, grocery retailers' income outpaced costs by 6.8% versus 7.5% at ...

New Groundwork Report Finds Corporate Profits Driving More Than ...

From April to September 2023, corporate profits drove 53% of inflation. · While prices for consumers have risen by 3.4% over the past year, input ...

It's Not 'Inflation' — We're Just Getting Ripped Off. Here's Proof.

Corporate profits accounted for more than half of recent price increases ... CEO after CEO boasting about their ability to raise prices on ...

More in US now blame 'greedy' companies for inflation: poll

Growing share of Americans blame 'greedy' corporations for inflation, Navigator poll says. The same number also blame government spending.

'Greedy' corporations to blame for inflation? More Americans now ...

Additionally, nearly half of voters, 45%, found the statement “corporate profits and CEO salaries are at an all-time high, outpacing inflation” ...

Harris blames corporate greed for high prices, but some economists ...

Harris blames corporate greed for high prices, but some economists disagree · Harris seeks a price-fixing plan in bid to halt high prices.

Business to blame for high prices? The facts show otherwise.

The truth is the Administration's fiscal and regulatory policies are driving inflation, and the American consumer is left holding the bag.

Big Companies Are Not the Inflation Villain | Yale Insights

Blaming corporate greed for rising prices is not a winning argument, write Yale SOM's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, economist and former presidential advisor Laura Tyson.

Why are prices still so high? Corporate greed, some say. - CNN

A recent report from Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive advocacy group, argues that corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the ...

Why some blame record corporate profits for high prices - NPR

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: While families struggle to pay their bills, some corporate executives are on earnings calls with investors on Wall ...

Dozens of big U.S. companies paid top executives more than they ...

Pay for corporate leaders has been on the rise for decades, with CEOs in 2022 earning about 344 times more than the typical worker, up from a ...

Greedflation: Casey Releases Report Exposing Big Corporations for ...

... pay fines for conspiring to inflate prices. Corporate ... Corporations Are Making Record Profits on the Backs of American Families, HERE.

Corporations are forcing Americans to pay more for less

In 2022, the Biden administration and the oil industry were in a brutal fight over oil prices. The president was demanding that domestic oil ...

Inflation Revelation: How Outsized Corporate Profits Drive Rising ...

Prices are simply the sum of costs and corporate profits. While rising costs of inputs can drive up what Americans pay at the gas pump or the ...