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The term "greedflation" was a candidate for word of the year for the Collins English Dictionary in 2023, [3] [4] and was added to Dictionary.com in 2024. [5] [6] Collins Dictionary defines it as either "the use of inflation as an excuse to raise prices to artificially high levels in order to increase corporate profits" or "an increase in the price of goods and services caused by businesses ...
Investors have two primary emotions, fear and greed, according to CNN Money. The Fear and Greed Index measures how investors across the entire stock market are feeling at any given point. Here’s ...
John R. Emshwiller and Rebecca Smith, 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America or Infectious Greed, HarperInformation, 2003, ISBN 0-06-052073-6; Lawrence A. Cunningham, The Sarbanes-Oxley Yawn: Heavy Rhetoric, Light Reform (And It Might Just Work)
Companies like Exxon Mobil, Shell, and Kraft Heinz enjoyed bumper profits as consumers struggled with historic inflation.
Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data.
Enron was a breeding ground for some of the worst excesses the business world has seen. It wasn't uncommon for the company's directors to send corporate jets to pick up homesick daughters in Paris, or fly themselves to major sporting events. One Enron division even spent $4 million a year on flowers, alone.
A different measure of inflation, the Federal Reserve’s preferred Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, has fallen to within a half percentage point of the Fed’s target of 2% inflation.