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Inflation: free markets or freeride?

Firms with market power raise their prices beyond rising energy costs, because they can. This huge queue of container trucks carrying grain in a blocked Ukrainian port symbolizes one of the factors in the rise in food prices, but the big companies controlling the world grain trade have exploited the shock of the offer (mykhailo …

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