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The real reasons why inflation soared last year (with Ira Regmi)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Is There a Difference Between Core Inflation and Market Concentration?

There are cascading effects across all of these issues that we're talking about, right? Like these don't operate in silos. We did find plenty of evidence that aggregate markups have been increasing extremely sharply over the during the pandemic. And then obviously we've seen like increase in profit margins and just profit overall. Beyond that, we also have our friends at groundwork who've done some incredible research.

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