Unchecked corporate pricing power is a factor in US inflation
This is all so silly.  I work in the lumber business.  We always, every day, at all times, sell our lumber to the highest bidder.  But for the first ~3 weeks of the pandemic, our sawmills ran flat out -- more production than ever.  Notwithstanding that fact, we saw unprecedented pricing -- because demand was radically outpacing supply.  A true "super cycle" driven, I believe, by robust federal stimulus.  That's since corrected significantly as interest rates have cooled home building and repair/remodel.  But the idea that we made a bunch of money during the pandemic because we were greedy and jacked up prices is hilarious.  We are just as greedy today as we were a year ago -- and making very little.  We always sell to the highest bidder.  I have no idea how we'd even do it otherwise -- a lumber lottery?  All of this reporting about corporate greed is truly dumb.