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How Corporate Profits Are Eating Your Inflation Numbers
Inflation is officially cooling — CPI is up just 2.4% year-over-year — so why does everything still feel expensive? In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a quiet shift that economists call 'greedflation' — the idea that companies are using inflation as cover to widen margins. They break down new data on how corporate profit margins have expanded while input costs have flattened, using the recent earnings of consumer goods giants like Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo as real-world examples. They also connect the dots to today's market: the S&P 500 at 7,580, up 1.4% in the last…
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