Did Grocery Chains Take Advantage of COVID Shortages to Raise Prices? FTC Says Yes; Supermarkets Supersized Their Profits During the Pandemic: Operating Incomes at Major Grocery Chains Grew in 2021 — and are Still Climbing, and other C-Virus related stories

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‘Everything is going up’: Families feel the squeeze of Biden’s inflation; Why one oil strategist says $7 gas could be on the way; Inflation hovers at 9.7% in producer index, right near highest on record: wholesale prices of goods are inevitably passed down to consumers