Rudy Canoza wrote:
> Price increases when demand exceeds supply are textbook economics. The question
> is whether, and how much, the pandemic yielded an excess take.
>
> By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek
> Reporting from Washington
> Published Aug. 15, 2024 | Updated Aug. 16, 2024, 9:58 a.m. ET
>
> In detailing her presidential campaign’s economic agenda, Vice President Kamala
> Harris will highlight an argument that blames corporate price gouging for high
> grocery prices.
>
> That message polls well with swing voters. It has been embraced by progressive
> groups, which regularly point to price gouging as a driver of rapid inflation,
> or at least something that contributes to rapid price increases. Those groups
> cheered the announcement late Wednesday that Ms. Harris will call for a federal
> ban on corporate price gouging on groceries in an economic policy speech on Friday.
>
> But the economic argument over the issue is complicated.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/business/economy/kamala-harris-inflation-
> price-gouging.html
>
> Go read the rest of the article at The Gold Standard. Suffice it to say that
> Harris's explanation is complete bullshit. There is no such thing as "price
> gouging." Prices rose rapidly for two perfectly explainable reasons: supply
> chain constrictions, and monetary inflation. Neither one amounts to "gouging."
> The increases were normal and predictable supply-and-demand responses.
>
> And yet, I hope this messaging resonates with undecided voters. Harris *must*
> win the election. The country cannot afford another assault on the Constitution
> and the very idea of constitutional governance by Trump, and he has already
> *promised* that's what we'll get.
>
> This "price gouging" lie Harris is feeding undecided voters is what is called
> "the noble lie." The noble lie goes back to Plato, but its greatest recent
> proponents have been the neo-cons, inspired by Leo Strauss. Most of the time
> lies aren't noble, such as the lies about "WMD" that led us into the quagmire or
> Iraq (the neo-cons *admit* to lying about WMD to start a war they wanted for
> other nefarious reasons). But in this case, a noble lie about "price gouging" is
> fully warranted.
>
> I don't care what other lies Harris and the Democrats tell, as long as they lead
> to Trump's defeat. No matter what bad and wrong things a Harris administration
> will do in economics, trade policy, energy policy, regulatory policy and even
> promotion of "DEI," it will be less damaging than a second Trump regime no
> matter what.
>
> #nevertrump
>

In order to STOP the murderous communist Left, Trump would have to declare
himself King and start killing Leftists. If he doesn't, tens of millions of
white people in the United States will likely be killed by the Left. This
is why Trump must win, election or not.

But you don't understand this because you're a retarded Boomer.

In article <v9p540$1ell$1@news.mixmin.net>, anon@anon.net says...
>
> Rudy Canoza wrote:
> > Price increases when demand exceeds supply are textbook economics. The question
> > is whether, and how much, the pandemic yielded an excess take.
> >
> > By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek
> > Reporting from Washington
> > Published Aug. 15, 2024 | Updated Aug. 16, 2024, 9:58 a.m. ET
> >
> > In detailing her presidential campaign?s economic agenda, Vice President Kamala
> > Harris will highlight an argument that blames corporate price gouging for high
> > grocery prices.
> >
> > That message polls well with swing voters. It has been embraced by progressive
> > groups, which regularly point to price gouging as a driver of rapid inflation,
> > or at least something that contributes to rapid price increases. Those groups
> > cheered the announcement late Wednesday that Ms. Harris will call for a federal
> > ban on corporate price gouging on groceries in an economic policy speech on Friday.
> >
> > But the economic argument over the issue is complicated.
> >
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/business/economy/kamala-harris-inflation-
> > price-gouging.html
> >
> > Go read the rest of the article at The Gold Standard. Suffice it to say that
> > Harris's explanation is complete bullshit. There is no such thing as "price
> > gouging." Prices rose rapidly for two perfectly explainable reasons: supply
> > chain constrictions, and monetary inflation. Neither one amounts to "gouging."
> > The increases were normal and predictable supply-and-demand responses.
> >
> > And yet, I hope this messaging resonates with undecided voters. Harris *must*
> > win the election. The country cannot afford another assault on the Constitution
> > and the very idea of constitutional governance by Trump, and he has already
> > *promised* that's what we'll get.
> >
> > This "price gouging" lie Harris is feeding undecided voters is what is called
> > "the noble lie." The noble lie goes back to Plato, but its greatest recent
> > proponents have been the neo-cons, inspired by Leo Strauss. Most of the time
> > lies aren't noble, such as the lies about "WMD" that led us into the quagmire or
> > Iraq (the neo-cons *admit* to lying about WMD to start a war they wanted for
> > other nefarious reasons). But in this case, a noble lie about "price gouging" is
> > fully warranted.
> >
> > I don't care what other lies Harris and the Democrats tell, as long as they lead
> > to Trump's defeat. No matter what bad and wrong things a Harris administration
> > will do in economics, trade policy, energy policy, regulatory policy and even
> > promotion of "DEI," it will be less damaging than a second Trump regime no
> > matter what.
> >
> > #nevertrump
> >
>
>
> In order to STOP the murderous communist Left, Trump would have to declare
> himself King and start killing Leftists. If he doesn't, tens of millions of
> white people in the United States will likely be killed by the Left. This
> is why Trump must win, election or not.
>
> But you don't understand this because you're a retarded Boomer.

Is boomer supposed to be an insult?