Current：Home > InvestIs price gouging a problem? -Ascend Wealth Education
Is price gouging a problem?
TrendPulse Quantitative Think Tank Center View
Date：2025-04-11 07:07:08
The inflationary environment brought on during the pandemic is sparking conversations about price gouging. It's a real fear that consumers have about the cost of staple goods, but many economists refuse to use the term. So what gives?
Today on the show, we learn why price gouging can feel so obvious for consumers but so difficult for economists to identify.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood！ (8)
Related
- B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
- Pulse nightclub to be purchased by city of Orlando with plans of mass shooting memorial
- While visiting wartime Israel, New York governor learns of her father’s sudden death back home
- Week 8 college football expert picks: Top 25 game predictions led by Ohio State-Penn State
- Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault charge
- Apple introduces a new, more affordable Apple Pencil: What to know
- Woman says she was raped after getting into a car she thought she had booked
- Soccer Star Ali Krieger Enters Beyoncé Lemonade Era Amid Ashlyn Harris, Sophia Bush Romance
- 'No Good Deed': Who's the killer in the Netflix comedy? And will there be a Season 2?
- Fewer Californians are moving to Texas, but more are going to Florida and Arizona
Ranking
- Meet the volunteers risking their lives to deliver Christmas gifts to children in Haiti
- Elephant dies after dog ran around Saint Louis Zoo
- Journalists in Gaza wrestle with issues of survival in addition to getting stories out
- MTV cancels EMAs awards show in Paris, citing Israel-Hamas war
- Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett
- Soccer Star Ali Krieger Enters Beyoncé Lemonade Era Amid Ashlyn Harris, Sophia Bush Romance
- Defendant in Tupac Shakur killing case is represented by well-known Las Vegas lawyer
- American journalist detained in Russia for failing to register as foreign agent
Recommendation
The Super Bowl could end in a 'three
1,000-lb. Sisters’ Tammy Slaton Proudly Shares Video in Jeans Amid Weight Loss Journey
Former nurse sentenced to 30 years for sexually assaulting inmates at women's prison
Maryland police investigating fatal shooting of a circuit court judge
Trump issues order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military
Crypto firms Gemini, DCG sued by New York for allegedly bilking investors of $1.1 billion
Shooter attack in Belgium drives an EU push to toughen border and deportation laws
The government secures a $9 million settlement with Ameris Bank over alleged redlining in Florida