US disinflation and the COVID-19 supply shock | Brookings
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Supply chain disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic are still being felt today, Robin Brooks, Peter R. Orszag, and William E. Murdock III explain.
      • sunzu@kbin.run
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        2 months ago

        Output prices rose significantly more than input prices, i.e., firms hiked margins, potentially as a mechanism to better conserve inventory…(Note that this potential driver of COVID-era margin expansion is distinct from and potentially more plausible than “greedflation.”)

          • sunzu@kbin.run
            11·
            2 months ago

            So regime propaganda excusing price gouging which is a crime BTW ;)

            • fukhueson@lemmy.worldOP
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              2 months ago

              Oh I thought there was something rational forthcoming, but it’s just baselessly accusing the source of being propaganda.

              • sunzu@kbin.run
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                2 months ago

                That’s what a think tank is, literally the definition of original source for regime propaganda.

                They provide academic and cover and numbers to for short you see on teevee in power professional manner