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9. The Corporations Saw The Stimulus Money From The Government As A Opportunity.....
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 07:50 PM
Jul 2022

Couple the stimulus money from the government with the savings most American's had because they were sheltering at home and not going out to eat, to the theater; or go on vacations; didn't need gas --- a lot of Americans salted away some money over the last two years of the pandemic.

The corporations knew this and thought about how they can get their hands on this found money.

So what happen? All kinds of (my belief) product shortages - some maybe real - but many bogus created shortages - so they could raise prices and get their hands into the back pockets of Americans and get some of that new found money.

I've heard instances where stockboys were told to keep the shelves looking empty so that people would hoard product and that the store can keep the prices up.

This is why we have inflation folks. Most of it is a creation of the greedy corporations practicing product birth control.

The oil companies - who lost big when people weren't on the roads and they had a surplus of gas and they had to bring down the prices - saw a chance to recover what they lost in profits during the pandemic - as the pandemic threat seemed to ease and we were being told that things were proceeding back to normal.

Notice how airline ticket prices went up.

All this inflation and price increases should ease soon - when the corporations feel that they've sucked the life out of the stimulus monies and the savings.

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