Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

Most, so called, "markets" are nothing but a sham.

Thats what freedom is about. You see an opportunity, you take it, you work hard, then you do exactly what you want with the gains.

But for every one of those stories, there are a million failures. Thats also freedom, people don't have to buy what your offering them. Thats the risk.

Earlier someone said Microsoft and Google and others were a monopoly. which is patent nonsense, because if Microsoft were a monopoly, Google and others could never have existed in the first place. The strong survive, the inflexible do not.

Ask Kodak.

Well the finding against Microsoft shows where the problem is, where they have used a lot of money to lever other companies their software as the default. Capitalism needs regulation, otherwise those billionares who favour Trump will continue to inflate their profits at the expense of the ordinary worker/consumer.

She is the one that highlighted "price gauging" or gouging i think she meant, surely its just that they had lots of inflation for the last few years , seems an obvious one

Jaysis....

Trump really knows how to pump them dry.

I'm not sure I see the problem with tackling price gouging. There's a pretty clear difference between a retailer who is raising their prices because inflation has made everything dearer, including wholesale and manufacture and every other bit of the supply chain, and price gouging, which is where you raise your prices over the odds because of simple greed. I think we can all agree that the latter practice should be discouraged.

Is there any evidence that grocery chains are price gouging and it's not just because the price of everything has gone up? I thought it was generally agreed that price controls on food are a bad thing and lead to shortages? Pushing this as one of her main policies so far is a bizarre choice

quarterly earnings reports are publicly available you know

https://investors.generalmills.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2024/General-Mills-Reports-Fiscal-2024-Third-quarter-Results/default.aspx#:~:text=General%20Mills%20repurchased%20approximately%2023.5,3%20percent%20to%20582%20million.

Walmart stock buybacks - the Waltons are the majority shareholders:

https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/stock_buyback

Kroger only halted buybacks this quarter because it wants to merge with Albertsons:

https://www.businessinsider.com/kroger-closed-grocery-stores-worker-raises-stock-buyback-2021-7?amp

https://www.investopedia.com/kroger-posts-revenue-beat-halts-stock-buybacks-as-it-seeks-approval-of-albertsons-deal-8666410

Ingles, board approves stock buyback:

https://www.asheville.com/news/ingles0310.html

Etc.

Stock buybacks used to be illegal, until Reagan legalized it in 1982. That’s about the same period wages stopped keeping pace with economic productivity.

He seems very bitter that Biden withdrew from the race : keeps bringing it up at every opportunity, claims that it was a 'coup' and that Biden supposedly now hates Kamala.

And MAGA nuts get upset when they're called weird?

I'm in absolutely no doubt that they already have this all tied up. Far too many billionaires have too much at stake to lose this election.