The beginning, even liberal economists would say this is impossible.

Companies have always been greedy.

Why is it that all of a sudden they're able to raise prices more than they would otherwise?

So is greed to blame for our current inflation woes?

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Meanwhile, some Americans are looking at capitalism and wondering if they've been conned.

Nobody wants to be a sucker.

And in a sense, we've been suckered by the market fundamentalism narrative.

And to round out the hour, a rereading of the Communist Manifesto.

If you cannot, in good faith, engage with the way that the substance and the style are

working together, you will never understand what kind of book this is.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

For well over a year, the Federal Reserve has been waging war against inflation.

Prices started climbing back in 2021 and quickly broke records in summer 2022.

Inflation and the United States is again surging to the highest level in 40 years.

And even though prices have come down since then, everyone feds, economists and pundits,

were trying to get a handle on what exactly was happening and what would fix it.

Wouldn't data points stuck out?

Prices were up, sure, but profits in some sectors were skyrocketing.

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