• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    I’m pretty sure the word you are looking for is ‘greedflation’. If they say how much the tariffs increase the price in a line item fashion then they can’t add on their own bit of greedflation.

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        But when trump next folds like the wet blanket he is and arbitrarily drops it back to 145% next week, they can “lower” their prices to be 185% above the baseline and pocket the difference with fewer people noticing.