• DrSleepless
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    321 month ago

    Americans refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing final blow to price gouging

  • @gravitas_deficiency
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    161 month ago

    I feel like banning stock buybacks would have more of a real and long-term effect than just relying on the market to “self-correct”

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      Tax on realized capital gains above $500k. Capital gains taxed as ordinary income or maybe a higher rate than OI since it isn’t really earned by the investor but by the labor of the employees of the company they “invested” in.

    • Nomecks
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      41 month ago

      1-month minimum hold time before selling of stocks.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

    You mean gouging not inflation, inflation is across the board, these companies are not paying proportionally more to make the product just gouging the end customers.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    When the CEOs (Kroger, looking at you) are literally bragging on quarterly earnings calls about raising prices and keeping them there just because they can - we call that Price Gouging. If only we had some kind of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that could help to regulate these greedy business practices…

    • OsaErisXero
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      71 month ago

      Joke’s on you, the only reason I’m not paying more is because I’m already maxed out