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Katie Porter: “Prices are not going up just because of supply chain or labor or some other invisible market forces. They are going up…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2022
Prices are not going up just because of supply chain or labor or some other invisible market forces. They are going up because powerful executives are making deliberate choices to maximize their profits at the expense of the rest of us.
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Katie Porter
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Katie Porter emphasizes that inflation is driven by corporate profit maximization, not just external factors.

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