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Inflation is providing cover for price fixing: Economists (thehill.com)
3 points by paulmd on July 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


>During fast food chain Chipotle’s first-quarter earnings call, finance chief Jack Hartung said that his customers had shown “very little resistance” to price increases.

This is one of the examples cited in the article.

Eh... if there's little resistance, this is exactly why inflation is here - because people have more money than supply. Any reasonable, for-profit business, would raise prices to maximize their profits.




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