{"id":29784,"date":"2022-11-01T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29784"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:47:08","slug":"how-corporations-get-away-with-murder-to-inflate-prices-on-rent-food-and-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/11\/01\/how-corporations-get-away-with-murder-to-inflate-prices-on-rent-food-and-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Corporations \u201cGet Away With Murder\u201d to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Institute for New Economic <\/em>thinking has this great interview &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/perspectives\/blog\/how-corporations-get-away-with-murder-to-inflate-prices-on-rent-food-and-electricity\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Corporations \u201cGet Away With Murder\u201d to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAntitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a nice complement to my previous post <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/11\/01\/federal-trade-commission-chair-lina-m-khan-is-interviewed-by-mark-glick\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Trade Commission chair Lina M. Khan is interviewed by Mark Glick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for New Economic thinking has this great interview &#8211; How Corporations \u201cGet Away With Murder\u201d to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity. Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29785,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784\/revisions\/29785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}