• wreel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The price gouging is mainly coming from consumer facing markets, not government contracts. Even with discretionary spending there isn’t that much that pure executive branch actions can do to dissuade the price gouging that we’ve been seeing.

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      11 months ago

      Well to be fair, there is A LOT of price gouging from government contracts, but they just print the money for it so they don’t REALLY care.

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        11 months ago

        Yup.

        If the President threatened to void federal contracts, you’d see immediate change.

        But the president doesn’t work for us.

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          11 months ago

          void federal contracts

          I’m sure Walmart and Chipotle are shaking in their boots. I guess a president DID get McDonald’s delivered to the White House once.

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              11 months ago

              Not sure what Jens Stoltenberg is gonna do about the price of bread in the USA, or are you confused with “leader of the USA” and “everyone else”?