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> Now, we are having inflation due to all those stimulus checks that forced central banks to hike interest rates.

Stimulus checks are not causing inflation. Corporations raising prices to increase profits are causing inflation.



What changed? Corporations who raise prices to increase profits isn’t exactly a revolutionary never before seen business strategy.


inflation is a giant beast with multiple causes, one of which is definitely stimulus. There are others too, including the cause you listed. Most things have multiple causes


Corporations raising prices that people are more willing to pay because they have more available spending money because of all of those stimulus checks...


> Corporations raising prices to increase profits

Well, not Alphabet.




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