So anyway, #Coles brand tasty #cheese was $9.00 for a 1kg block in 2019 (I know this, because I was experimenting with creating smoked cheese for my people, and I purchased it often). The same Coles brand tasty cheese is now $14.00, despite the "PRICE LOCKED" tag that's been there the whole time.

Temporary price rises due to #COVID lockdowns and the like are to be expected in a market-based economy: shortages make sense when nobody can go to work farming/making/processing/delivering cheese.

However, COVID isn't a thing anymore, according to Western governments and Western "news services".

If COVID is no longer a thing, cheese prices *should* return to 2019 levels (give or take a bit to account for #inflation, #ClimateCatastrophe, #MarketForces, and the like). Yet, cheese prices continue to skyrocket.

Please excuse my economic illiteracy here, but if a previous crisis is no longer a crisis, your pricing should stabilise, so that your customers don't have to choose between medication and food.

#PriceGouging #FuckTheseCunts

Did I mention I adore, and I mean it, I'm absolutely in love with this guy's writing style?

#richardKMorgan #books #bookWorm #marketForces

If you would like some advice on how to conduct banking without supporting fossil-fuel investment in Australia, the Market Forces website is excellent: https://www.marketforces.org.au
#MarketForces #fossilFuels #banking #Australia

New data: in the last financial year, fossil fuel companies donated ~$2 million to the major political parties - money clearly aimed at sweetening deals to expand coal, oil, and gas production. Find out more in our new analysis:
Via #MarketForces #Auspol
https://www.marketforces.org.au/politicaldonations2023/

Fossil gas company Santos is happily throwing money at Australia’s political parties - it spent $153,660 on political donations in FY2022 - despite paying almost no income tax (FY2021).
Via #MarketForces #Auspol
https://www.marketforces.org.au/politicaldonations2023/

Members and organisations including #amnestyOz
are calling on HESTA Super
to stop fuelling the climate crisis and divest from companies expanding fossil fuels.
via #MarketForces #asuspol
https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/super/hesta/

Now here is a story about the wrongs of unrestrained capitalism. The market works so well for the rich. #capitalism #marketforces #billionaires #bigphama TikTok turned Caitlyn's diabetes medication into a miracle 'skinny pen'. Now she can't find it anywhere
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-08/ozempic-diets-are-fuelling-global-shortages-for-diabetics/101827366

This one I have to miss, but whether you are in Edinburgh or elsewhere, look! A hybrid seminar on 29 Nov 2022 at 1600 (GMT):

Calculative agency and moral fault: responsibility in market offences
Prof Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow

Details and registration
Being there: https://lfarmer.eventbrite.co.uk/

Being elsewhere: https://edin.ac/3dS5z3y

#Law #CriminalLaw #MarketMisconduct #MarketForces #HomoEconomicus

@Storm_nu isn’t it just normal #capitalism and #business where #marketforces drive it all? (Good, bad, startup, crash)

8 Years Ago Today: Bitcoin Traders Slayed the Infamous Bear Whale Who Dumped 30,000 BTC in a Single Trade

https://news.bitcoin.com/8-years-ago-today-bitcoin-traders-slayed-the-infamous-bear-whale-who-dumped-30000-btc-in-a-single-trade/

#Secondmarketmanagingdirector #24hourtradevolume #$29millionperday #BitstampSellWall #BrendanO’Connor #BitstampTrader #$32.63billion #scalingdebate #30000Bitcoin #BTCBearWhale #marketforces #October62014 #Secondmarket #$300percoin #$9million #8yearsago

#Bailey admits #BankofEngland has no way to control #Inflation or mitigate #FoodCrisis affecting at least 1 in 10 UK citizens who are now going hungry. So much for #marketforces or #neoliberalism.

Bank could not predict Ukraine war or its economic effects but UK intelligence & Johnson government could and should. Their failure led to this crisis but no one demands we sack head of #MI5 or the PM. Instead poor are told to starve &/or work to death &/or shut up.

#Labour #Opposition are silent.