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by freen 851 days ago
Inflation was largely driven by companies utilizing price increases created by short term supply shocks, and making them permanent.

Pepsi controls 90% of the potato chip market.

6 companies provide ~80% of all products on the interior aisle shelves of your grocery store.

There is no universe where the quantity of money in pandemic stimulus even remotely approximates the total net price increase (inflation). Rather, the corporate net profit increase accounts for the vast majority of all inflationary pressures.