Are corporations winning at inflation?

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Jerusalem Demsas and Dylan Matthews talk with Joey Politano (@JosephPolitano), economics blogger and self-described "mid-tier take-haver," to go over one big question on people’s minds right now: are corporations profiting off of inflation? References: Joey’s blog post about rising corporate prices and inflation Sen. Elizabeth Warren on rising corporate profit margins Paul Krugman’s newsletter from this week Binyamin Appelbaum on the meatpacking industry The White House’s statement on meat companies taking advantage of market power The letter from President Joe Biden to FTC chair Lina Khan “Could strategic price controls help fight inflation?” in the Guardian Rethinking Inflation Policy: A toolkit for economic recovery by JW Mason and Lauren Melodia Hosts: Jerusalem Demsas (@jerusalemdemsas), policy reporter, Vox Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:53.0	I'm Jerusalem Demsys, a policy reporter here at Vox, and today I'm joined by our very own Dylan Matthews.
0:59.0	Hey!
1:00.0	And special guest, Joey Polatana.
1:02.0	Hi there!
1:03.0	Joey is a brand new to the takes game, but has an impossible to pronounce sub-stack,
1:09.0	where he talks mostly about macroeconomic policy.
1:11.0	Joey, how do we power in pronounces?
1:13.0	It's a prickitas. It's April RICITAS, but I was informed that you pronounce C's as K in Latin.
1:20.0	And yeah, semi-freshness take-havard and economics writer.
1:25.0	I should also note that everything I say here is my personal views and not that of my employer.
1:30.0	So if you have any problems, please DM me angrily on Twitter and don't send any emails.
1:35.0	Yes, please DM him your rude thoughts.
1:38.0	He does appreciate them.
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