Inflation Explained: The REAL Reason Prices Are Going Up | The Class Room Ep. 2

This is a good video. The greedy is making it hard for customers, business owners, and real estate. I cant wait until American shuts down. I’m moving out this country.

My American Agenda teacher showed us this video today. Rly interesting video lol.

Close were only greedy during covid...they have never I'm 200 years rose prices for profit. Right...

And inflation also caused the destruction of and the demise of the Berlin nightclub in Chicago most recently, as their workers tried to "strike" for higher wages. Final blow and a stinging blow!

That is why I lost $924.83 of my net worth in inflation from 2021-2022!!! I lost my spending power big time!

U also failed to mention Obama $ policy planting 1 pf the roots that causing more inflation to present days n beyond.

Cant fully agree w your theory.

TRUTH!

The bottom line is that markets cannot simply be allowed to be manipulated by the rich.

Particularly those that deal with shelter, food, water, and education, as well. These aren't truly markets. People must have shelter. They must eat and have available clean water. Energy is another example. There is no market.

We need controls on profits. Period. Controls on corporate salaries, bonuses, and particularly stock repurchasing (buybacks).

This corrupt greedmongering that is called "capitalism" needs to be destroyed and reformed anew.

Our children will be absolutely forced to do something, forced to mitigate the greed and corruption.

We must act now. These people truly exist. $5B isn't enough, when they could've had $6B.

Had they just paid labor 5% less, cut spending on safety or HVAC controls in their facilities, or found a way to avoid taxation even more than already possible they could've made even more money than any 50 people could spend in 100 lifetimes.

It's beyond absurd, truly criminal and they will never relent without being forced.

Say what you will but something very dangerous developed in the 20th Century and worsened significantly after WWII.

FDR was our only saving grace and they HATED him. Fought him on everything. Yet he was smart; persistent and popular. He had a mandate to undo tremendous suffering.

So they rigged that 1944 DNC Convention and put Truman in office. A placable habadasher, a total pushover rube.

Much better for Organized Capital than Wallace. It allowed them to begin the financial control of government and rein in a new Gilded Age.

Hell, even Eisenhower warned us, of one industry in particular, in his Farewell Address and JFK listened.

JFK tried to plug the leak, but we saw what happened to him. They feared FDR had come again.

Not an organized cabal, per se. Merely the forces of greed. Those who have tremendous wealth, regardless of how it was obtained.

I could go on at length. I digress.

The rich will never cede power. They will never voluntarily surrender their baronies or fiefdoms.

They're plenty happy with this corrupt neofeudalist plutocracy. The people must act. The Workers must unite and force the legislatures of the world to act.

Fascism is brewing. Especially in America. This isn't all a coincidence. We have individuals with more spending power than entire nations.

Trouble is coming in myriad ways and I wish I had the resources to get workers united.

Still need to fix taxes. We are burning through money, but it's only because we aren't collecting

Why are people willing to pay more?

This video is over 2 years old in December 2023.. So sad 😢

This is more relevant now than ever. The monopoly company I work for has record profits has raised fees on the product and laid off 10s of thousands of workers. The CEO has received a new contract that doubles his salary and $60 billion in stock buybacks to enrich the shareholders. Corporations and the rich will push the elasticity of price and or employment via lower wages and lay offs until they reach the bottom all under the guise of higher costs when in reality the company is responsible for the problem in the first place.

Can’t really agree with all of this. You cannot ignore the overspending by both parties. It’s not just the right. Be more balanced to be credible.

Thanks for the video. The only thing is you can go check the reported revenues, profits, and costs of revenues of all of the major food producers. While you generally find big increases in revenue, profits have not increased or have fallen since 2019, which would support that the earnings are coming at a higher cost due to inflation. It seems like both sides are wrong - it's not corporate greed or government programs - it's the Fed devaluing the dollars by printing more of them. I don't understand how it's possible to discuss inflation without discussing this well known factor in the equation. It's like you were so focused on proving why the Republicans were wrong, you didn't pause to consider that both sides could be wrong. And it's politically expedient for them to remain wrong, the price of being honest about the real source of inflation is too high for them.

So they hold the economy hostage and pretend it’s worse during democrat governance?

If you don't like the price increase don't buy it.

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Imagine spending 100's of $Millions$ buying the Supreme Court and not even phase your budget plans.

Lack of real competition in markets.
Inflation.

Inflation and greed are two completely different things corporations are greedy thay is the nature of the beast but they can't cause inflation that is the sin of government the very definition of inflation is to inflate the money supply a simple economic reality to much money chasing to few goods or supply and demand every high school kid should know this and they would if not for government control of education

Greedflation, and nobody is doing anything about it. Nobody will. Talking about it over and over, like peeing in the wind.
Doesn’t do anything.
So, how does it change?
That’s the point.

Thing is "we" have the power to stop this "greed". It's ridiculous the ones making these corporations filthy rich have the least. It's far past the time, let's stand together and show them who really has the power. A good week long labor strike will send a strong message.

Your pay raise 3% yearly their price inflated by 12%. Thats 9% out of your paycheck. . Productivity goes up we should have more money to properly represent our productivity. The problem is all that extra money that's generated from extra productivity and its representation is also hoarded at the top like all the money made prior to that but as the inflammation goes up and as you only keep a very small percentage of that inflation that difference is even more money that is being taken from your paycheck you're not getting a pay raise every year when you get a 3% raise you are actually getting your pay lowered every year with a 3% raise because they're keeping the 9% they're keeping the 9% for themselves you'd be making an even stable paycheck if you got the full 12% but you would been be getting a pay raise if you got something over 13%. But you're not you're losing that's why every couple years if you just got a new job you'd actually be making a little bit more but since they're also doing the same thing you're losing money regardless and there is barely any money to be made as well as extreme price gouging at every facet of life.

Thank you so much for this video, but it would be better if you were to source your resources in the description for people who use this as research :)

Fascism......duh

It's a Big Gov/Big Corp merger

They take the price increase and they don’t even give it to their workers.

It's almost definitely a combination of multiple contributing issues of which supply chain, instability, and excess money supply are all part, however it's crazy to not think that corporate is a major contributing factor. Seemingly every major Corp ever realized during the pandemic they can provide absolute trash service and actually raise their prices, and not only survive but thrive, have some of their best quarters ever. Why would they go back? Especially when in almost every major industry ultimately there's like 2-4 major controlling conglomerates. So F it, let's jack up prices as high as we possibly can until people are absolutely forced to cut back, provide absolutely crap customer service and general quality, then back down the prices a teany tiny bit, then sit back and enjoy

Dude, if money buys less, then the value of having "record profits" may not be higher than the previous record. All things rise proportional to the value of currency when measured in currency. This includes profits costs prices and i WISH it included wages but those always lag behind. The only factor here i find wrong is that wages aren't also increasing to match inflation.

Disinformation at its best. Current inflation in the US, as all empirical analysis show, its due to excess aggregate demand. In the case of Europe, its due to a supply shock. Greed is the excuse politicians use to not be accauntable of their own blame on current inflation.

They don’t explain what money is and how is it created, if you only knew and understood this, then you would understand why things happen the way they do. It’s not just greed, it’s mathematics. Our monetary system is mathematically designed to fail.

He also admitted the corporation is raising prices to appease the investors, so who is at the top of this greed push? It is the investor who is pushing the Corp to raise prices. Who is the investor? Look in the mirror. 401k and mutual funds and pension plans.

Hyperinflation that great excuse and great abuse

Coles Aldi's Woolworths all doing the same thing rising their prices higher and then claiming responsibility on inflation

Just wait till they introduce central bank digital currency then you will lose control of your own finances let alone about the rising inflation and prices an increasingly expensive rental of houses

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I knew it was the CEOs. Damn! Well, now we know printing more money doesn’t cause any problems. So, let them print enough so we don’t have to pay taxes. Simple enough.

When we let corporations form into conglomorates this is what we get. Regulations are needed bc ppl will just do the things if you let them.

Ready for revolution yet?
Seriously, how many reasons do you need?

Multiple courts have ruled law enforcement have no duty to protect and serve us.

3 billion taxpayer dollars spent settling lawsuits against corrupt and incompetent cops in the last 10 years

30,000 dead children in Iraq and Afghanistan

School shooting almost daily

For every single dollar of shoplifting there is five dollars of wage theft

We've given billions of dollars to Israel, a country with universal healthcare, while we're told we can't afford it.

Taxpayers in every major city have paid to build and rennovate huge structures for businesses owned by billionaires.

Drug use is up.

Mental health issues are on the rise.

Approximately 80% of us are on prescription drugs.

The number one cause of bankruptcy is medical debt.

We're still removing or covering lead paint in schools and public housing.

Places like Flint still don't have clean water.

Not enough for you? I've got endless examples.

After every fish has been eaten, then we will know that we cannot eat money.

I wish this would get out to the general public! this is what i try to tell folks ,boy do they get pissed at me ! Then they spew what ev it is they are brainwashed to say

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... inflation is a man mde thi g to stuff the pockets of the rich: Jesu sees everything.. he is waiting for them

Packages are getting so small. Corporate greed.

Great job! We need you to get this word out! Thanks for your work

this video seems to think that introducing 6 trillion dollars of new money into circulation has nothing todo with inflation. a truly astounding point of view that shows a clear lack of understanding

I wish you were as right as you are passionate.

More people should be seeing this.