Pluralistic: Eggflation is excuseflation (10 Mar 2025)

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Eggflation is excuseflation: We don’t have egg companies in the business of making eggs anymore, we have egg companies in the business of exploiting egg shortages.
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Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025)

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It's not a crime if we do it with an app: How Big Potato and the other food cartels did greedflation and got away with it.
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Pluralistic: Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action (20 Nov 2023)

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Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action: Now can we please stop listening to this ghoul?
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Pluralistic: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point (03 May 2023)

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The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point: My *Locus* column about the justifiable suspicions of the medical industry, lockdowns, license-plate cameras, and beyond.
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Pluralistic: Excuseflation (11 Mar 2023)

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Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste.
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