See greedflation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2022 June 14, Catherine Rampell, “Greed is dead. Long live greed!”, in Washington Post (subscription required):",
"text": "Echoes her colleague Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): “The problem is not inflation. The problem is corporate greed.” Their evidence for the greedflation theory was that prices companies charge had risen faster than input costs, which meant (at least for a while) that profits were growing.",
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