Economics

Corporate America’s Pricing Power

Photographer: Daniel Acker

Hello. Today we look at rising pricing power for America’s biggest companies, surging inflation in the Baltics and the upside of running labor markets hot.

The biggest surge in U.S. consumer prices in almost four decades seems to have obvious enough causes — continuing supply-chain disruptions amid a surge in consumer demand for goods. But some economists, not to mention politicians, are starting to take a closer look.