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Corporate giants are raising prices even as they rake in record profits.
How can this be? Because of their unchecked power
‘The underlying problem isn’t inflation per se. It’s lack of
competition.’ Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Thu 11 Nov 2021 14.14 GMT
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But there’s a deeper structural reason for inflation, one that appears to
be growing worse: the economic concentration of the American
economy in the hands of a relative few corporate giants with the power
to raise prices.
But they’re raising prices even as they rake in record profits. How can
this be? They have so much market power they can raise prices with
impunity.
Viewed this way, the underlying problem isn’t inflation per se. It’s lack
of competition. Corporations are using the excuse of inflation to raise
prices and make fatter profits.
In April, Procter & Gamble announced it would start charging more for
consumer staples ranging from diapers to toilet paper, citing “rising
costs for raw materials, such as resin and pulp, and higher expenses to
transport goods”.
It could raise prices and rake in more money because P&G faces almost
no competition. The lion’s share of the market for diapers, to take one
example, is controlled by just two companies – P&G and Kimberly-
Clark – which roughly coordinate their prices and production. It was
hardly a coincidence that Kimberly-Clark announced price increases
similar to P&Gs at the same time P&G announced its own price
increases.
Or consider another consumer product duopoly – PepsiCo (the parent
company of Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Quaker, Tropicana, and other
brands), and Coca-Cola. In April, PepsiCo announced it was increasing
prices, blaming “higher costs for some ingredients, freight and labor”.
Rubbish. The company didn’t have to raise prices. It recorded $3bn in
operating profits through September.
If PepsiCo faced tough competition, it could never have gotten away
with this. But it doesn’t. To the contrary, it appears to have colluded
with Coca-Cola – which, oddly, announced price increases at about the
same time as PepsiCo, and has increased its profit margins to 28.9%.
You can see a similar pattern in energy prices. If energy markets were
competitive, producers would have quickly ramped up production to
create more supply, once it became clear that demand was growing.
But they didn’t.
Why not? Industry experts say oil and gas companies saw bigger
money in letting prices run higher before producing more supply. They
can get away with this because big oil and gas producers don’t operate
in a competitive market. They can manipulate supply by coordinating
among themselves.
Since the 1980s, two-thirds of all American industries have become more
concentrated
In sum, inflation isn’t driving most of these price increases. Corporate
power is driving them.
Since the 1980s, when the US government all but abandoned antitrust
enforcement, two-thirds of all American industries have become more
concentrated.
Monsanto now sets the prices for most of the nation’s seed corn.
Airlines have merged from 12 in 1980 to four today, which now control
80% of domestic seating capacity.
Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have merged, leaving the US with just
one large producer of civilian aircraft: Boeing.
The Federal Reserve has signaled it won’t raise interest rates for the
time being, believing that the inflation is being driven by temporary
supply bottlenecks.