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Are big corporate profits to blame for inflation?

Are big corporate profits to blame for inflation?

Behind the Money · Manuela Saragosa

July 20, 202218m 51s

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Show Notes

Greedflation. Price gouging. Pandemic profiteering. What happens when turning a profit is considered a bad thing? In this week’s episode, the FT’s US business editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson explains how a new message around corporate profits is resonating with the American public and causing headaches for executives. 


Clip courtesy of Bloomberg


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For further reading:

US companies face rising battle to fend off vilification over ‘excess’ profits

Joe Biden blasts Chevron chief as ‘sensitive’ after fuel-price criticism

The war on ‘woke capitalism’ 


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On Twitter, follow Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson (@Edgecliffe) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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