Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates) – Page 31

Kamala Harris Blames ‘Price Gouging’ for Grocery Inflation. Here’s What Economists Say.

Price increases when demand exceeds supply are textbook economics. The question is whether, and how much, the pandemic yielded an excess take.

By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek

The prices were made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, which granted the health secretary the authority to negotiate on behalf of Medicare.

By Noah Weiland and Rebecca Robbins

The vice president is leaning into an effort to partly blame big companies for inflation, as progressives have pushed her to embrace that argument.

By Jim Tankersley

Soaring prices have been a political albatross for the Biden administration.

By Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley