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Make Me Smart

Corporations are doing just fine, thank you

Make Me Smart

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News, Business

4.65.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Some publicly traded corporations reported strong earnings today, despite inflation and supply chain shortages. This left consumers to foot the bill for rising prices. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is walking a fine line during a critical time. We talk about a key indicator we’ll be watching to gauge the economy’s health. We’ll leave you with some wicked humor from Capitalism herself and fictional pairings we’d like to see (Hamlet, meet the Ghost Busters).

Join us Friday for Economics on Tap. We’ll be livestreaming on YouTube starting at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

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0:00.0

Oh, I only know like there's a techno remix of it.

0:03.6

Hi buddy, I'm Sabrina Shaw, Infer Kai Rizdal, and welcome back to Make Me Smarts, where

0:09.4

we make today make sense.

0:11.8

And I am Mariel Segarra in For Kimberly Adams.

0:14.8

Thanks for joining us this Thursday.

0:17.1

Sabrina and I are going to go over a few news items that we've got for you, and then

0:20.8

we will wrap things up with some Make Me Smiles.

0:24.0

So let's start.

0:26.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:27.2

Why don't you go first?

0:28.6

Okay, so a couple of big consumer facing companies reported earnings today, and they are all

0:37.7

doing just fine.

0:39.8

Thank you very much, despite inflation and their costs going up, they are passing the

0:45.6

costs on to all of us.

0:47.8

So Nestle is one example and a known which owns a bunch of yogurt brands and also Evian

0:54.6

and water.

0:58.4

Both of them saw their sales go up significantly, and I know Nestle also saw its profits rise.

1:03.2

And they just raised prices in the past year and the past, I think in the past three

1:08.8

months in particular, what it made me think about was two things, I guess.

1:15.4

Companies, the limit to price increases and the limit to inflation, I think, comes down

1:20.7

to what we are willing to pay, right?

1:23.7

There's going to be a ceiling at some point, but if you're willing to pay an extra, let's

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