Corporate Profits and Inflation: Who’s Really Driving Up Prices?

Inflation isn’t just about supply chains or wage growth—it’s about profit. New reports suggest that corporate greed is playing a major role in keeping prices high. When companies see an opportunity to raise prices under the cover of economic uncertainty, they take it.

Big businesses are reporting record profits even as consumers struggle. That’s because instead of adjusting prices fairly, they’re padding their margins, knowing that people have no choice but to pay. Economists call it “greedflation,” and it’s why inflation isn’t easing as quickly as expected.

The Federal Reserve can hike interest rates all it wants, but if corporations keep exploiting the system, everyday people will continue to bear the burden. At some point, this cycle of unchecked profit-taking has to break. If not, rising prices will crush demand, and the economy will grind to a halt—not because of natural market forces, but because of corporate opportunism.