This year, a really interesting new idea appeared in mainstream economics.

The idea is that the inflation we've been struggling with is due to corporations realizing

they can charge us more and we will pay a new cause of inflation.

Now, at this point, we've had a good understanding of what causes inflation.

Too much money chasing too few goods is the Econ 101 explanation.

And of course, when supply chains break down as they did during the pandemic, that'll contribute

too.

It may have felt recently that things are more expensive than they should be.

That the crisis created by the PANee is coming to a close, but prices are still very high.

Two Econ writers recently dug into the question of whether old-fashioned inflation is the reason

for all of the higher prices or whether something else is going on.

There seems to be a reluctance on the part of businesses to start to bring prices down.

Coming up on today, explained the hidden drivers of inflation.

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