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I was thinking of buying the Economist a couple of days ago since I'm running out of "flat back" reading material. But all the magazines are gone. First time I've been there since July because of illness (housebound).

"Flatback reading material" is a physical book or magazine -- I do a lot of reading in bed and I refuse to read stuff in bed on screen since that's supposed to be bad for sleep and other reasons (I get plenty of screen time when I'm up and about at the computer).

Anyway just an idle thought I had when Hartmann, near the end, said the media, other than the economic press, is hardly reporting on the evermore consolidation of corporations. And I was thinking, heck I can't even buy a single issue of the Economist.

Maga corps own nearly everything.
Don't get me started on Koch brands.

I have a favorite jelly that I no longer purchase and evidently other stopped buying as well. The shelves are stocked with plenty of the jelly. The problem is the price. I told them they have priced me out of their product. Of course they cited supply chain issues. No, there is an abundance of the product. I cited corporate greed. It's not that I can't afford the product, I just don't want to pay double the price. I can see $1.00 increase, but not double. I told them we consumers have other choices. Go ahead corporations, bite the hand that feeds you. We will fight back.

since Biden controls the prices of stuff.

It's a win-win for these corporations to jack up their prices. People will keep on buying stuff because we need to eat food. But many voters will simply blame whoever is in the white house. Conservatives enjoy associating high prices with socialist scarcity instead of corporate monopoly greed.

Things were extra dumb during the 2020 pandemic shortages, when idiots claimed it was socialist scarcity.

Personally, I enjoyed Jason Chaffetz's $114 bougie turkey when a comparable one could be had for about $35 at any local grocery store or $60 for a comparable organic one at whole foods. Yep. Socialism is ruining our lives.