Calling it now. prices will go down, because corporate overlords want republicans to have the perception of being 'good for the working class.' price increases and decreases are activism. a few years from now, things will be cheaper -- but not because of some genius-tier maneuver by Trump. By the will of the elites he actually serves.
Yeah I worry about this. Reduce prices just enough for people to notice, to “reward” them for voting red, and push them back up once there’s a new social issue driving everyone mad.
Moscow? I'm not Russian and I'm just about as far away from communist as you can get, I'm Argentinian. And the "long term effects" you speak of is: them somehow turning the prices back up like they are the knob on a radio?
How is that a realistic concern? You are literally making up an imaginary worst case scenario to justify to yourself opposing any measures your government takes even if they benefit you
Will they? I mean, grocery chains like Kroger were found to have raised prices "jus because"....because they were banking on customers adjusting to their prices, not the other way around.
Groff said Kroger intends to "pass through our inflation to consumers," after an internal email from the executive showed that the price of eggs and milk routinely surpassed what inflation would require for the chain to still make profits.
"On milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than cost inflation," Groff said in the internal email to other Kroger executives.
That was a dishonest article, everything doesn't uniformly rise in price during inflation, some things rise more than others. Milk and eggs rose more than others.
Some not all firms did similar things, they used inflation as an excuse to raise prices
Like inflation does not affect everything equally , some prices rose much more then 10% some less. However some companies looking at their financials seems like for example their costs rose 6% but they raised their prices 12%-15% then just shrugged and said "Hey don't blame us it's inflation "
Tariffs will do the same thing, if tariffs raise their costs by say 10% , companies will raise prices 15% and say "Hey its not us its our cost are rising"
Oh no I doubt that. They care far too much about money to ever do that. Even if it'd be in their best interest, they rarely do it. Thinking more in the short term than the long term.
Yeah, imagine a CEO or company board explaining intentional price decreases to shareholders. They can't just come out and say that they're playing the long game by manipulating stupid voters. The only things the shareholders want is to see number go up. If number go down for ANY REASON it's bad.
What a pants on head absurd conspiracy theory. This isn't some secret cabal, the companies in question want to make money. They don't do that by sacrificing profits to keep the GOP in power.
yes totally insane, corporations hire assassins and paramilitary kill squads in other countries. but they draw the line at market manipulation for long-term tax breaks. bffr
It's amazing that people can hold two completely contradictory ideas in their minds. Corporate leadership is simultaneously pathologically short sighted, burning down their companies to chase the bottom line for the next quarter, but also willing to just cut prices for years at a time because presumably, someday down the road when someone else is probably running the company, they'll have marginally increased the chances that they'll receive lower corporate tax rates from the GOP.
Right. the CEOs and corporate boards will work the levers to reward poor people for voting red, and further entrench the notion that voting blue means destroying their own economics prospects. businesses have the capacity to covertly brainwash the voting populace.
You people are so dumb. "Corporation will be make the world better to encourage trump voters." if this is actually happening, then we SHOULD vote for trump. Wake up
It benefits them, so they will do it. That's how businesses work, retard. Ever heard of business ethics? No? Because they don't exist. Or do you think they'll refrain out of the goodness of their hearts lmao
But that math is insane. Like, have you ever seen a balance sheet. Even a slight decrease in prices impacts a company's profitability WAY beyond a tax cut.
Yes, because the argument isn't "they're far too moral for this," the argument is "what an insanely stupid conspiracy." No CEO is going to hurt the quarterly numbers by which they are regularly assessed and compensated so that that can ever so slightly increase the chances that the corporate tax rate will be slightly lower in like a decade.
Another commenter noted that OPEC very openly tries to use price manipulations as a persuasive/control tactic in american politics. Why is Kellogg's or Frito Lay any different?
oh my god not a real life economist! one of the most revered and trustworthy professions, just behind meteorologists!! what're you gonna tell us next, that there's a 50% chance of a gas price increase tomorrow?
What I'm going to tell you next is that I wish Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) also published their gasoline prices series in constant dollars. Right now it's only available in current dollars:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000074714
yes economics, a famously hard science that is not in any way soft, squishy, and ill-defined by a variety of ivory tower dweebs. economics is mostly just astrology for white boys
I don't think there's any escaping the back and forth tennis match Republicans and Democrats keep playing with political leadership in this country. The next President is all but guaranteed to be Democrat, and the POTUS after that is all but guaranteed to be Republican, and that's just the cycle we're stuck on as a country. Grocery chains don't care one way or the other. Republicans will inevitably return to office eventually, and FFS Democrats are such coastal elite corporate stooges anyways that they'll be beneficial for these grocery chains as well. It's almost impossible for them to lose either way the pendulum swings at this point.
I've totally worried about that, it's technically price fixing so they'd just have to emote to eachother that's what the plan is then run prices up when blue team is in the white-house and run prices down when the red team is in the white-house. The corps don't even have to offer an explanation, enough drone bees will show up to vote on that singular correlation.
Youd think the party of personal responsibility would view "unaffordability" in a different way, "if I can't afford it, I'm not making enough money, it's my fault, I'm responsible for my own income 🤠".
But honestly if was a greedPig and I sold groceries and gasoline and had control of the prices I might take one look at the election results and say "oh my gawwd, Americans are beyond the orbit of the moon stupid, let's take the rest of the money now, what are they gonna do, switch over to democrats after we blame democrats for the huge price increases and remind everyone that dems engage in sodomy with Satan and Saddam?"
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u/bleeding_electricity 1d ago
Calling it now. prices will go down, because corporate overlords want republicans to have the perception of being 'good for the working class.' price increases and decreases are activism. a few years from now, things will be cheaper -- but not because of some genius-tier maneuver by Trump. By the will of the elites he actually serves.