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- Wages are rising, but inflation may have given workers a 2% pay cut https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/wages-are-rising-but-has-inflation-given-workers-a-2percent-pay-cut.html 11 comments
- The Inflation Reduction Act Will Deliver Nine Million Good-Paying Jobs, Nearly All in Energy and Manufacturing https://liberalwisconsin.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-inflation-reduction-act-will.html 6 comments economy
- Americans Continue To Pay For Inflation With Credit Cards https://altindx.com/americans-continue-to-pay-for-inflation-with-credit-cards/ 11 comments business
- Americans Continue to Pay for Inflation With Credit Cards | SchiffGold https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/americans-continue-to-pay-for-inflation-with-credit-cards/ 3 comments economy
- Why Wages Should Keep up with Inflation: The Economic Case for Getting a Pay Rise – Byline Times https://bylinetimes.com/2022/08/09/why-wages-should-keep-up-with-inflation-the-economic-case-for-getting-a-pay-rise/ 21 comments economy
- 'CEOs, Not Working People, Are Causing Inflation': Report Shows Soaring Executive Pay https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/19/ceos-not-working-people-are-causing-inflation-report-shows-soaring-executive-pay 3 comments economy
- Johnson says inflation is a 'price worth paying' to defend Ukrainian freedom https://www.cityam.com/johnson-says-inflation-is-a-price-worth-paying-to-defend-ukrainian-freedom/ 10 comments economy
- Inflation sparks global wave of protests for higher pay, aid https://apnews.com/article/inflation-middle-east-africa-56399743fe9ad28692c88c007bb901d6 9 comments worldnews
- Rolls-Royce CEO responds to record inflation by giving 14,000 workers a bonus and pay raise: ‘We are living through exceptional times.’ https://fortune.com/2022/06/21/rolls-royce-ceo-bonus-pay-raise-wage-increase-inflation-cost-of-living-crisis/ 504 comments europe
- UK minister warns public sector workers not to expect above-inflation pay rises https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/20/britain-economy-clarke 84 comments worldnews
- 'Paying the price': Biden and top aides misread threat of inflation as warning signs gathered https://nbcnews.tribe.so/group/paying-the-price-biden-and-top-aides-misread-threat-of-inflation-as-warning-signs-gathered 4 comments economy
- UK pay hit by inflation but unemployment falls to 48-year low https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/may/17/uk-pay-inflation-unemployment-city-bonuses 2 comments worldnews
- Most U.S. workers took an inflation pay cut in 2021 https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/news/most-u-s-workers-took-an-inflation-pay-cut-in-2021/article_b0b3af78-9c98-11ec-a873-db1e93b7b240.html 191 comments economics
- Smashburger warns on inflation: 'There's a point where people won't pay' https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/smashburger-president-strategic-about-inflation-theres-a-point-where-people-wont-pay-210130154.html 14 comments economy
- Google won't raise employee pay to match inflation https://www.engadget.com/google-inflation-raises-all-hands-233202581.html 217 comments economy
- Ending the War in Afghanistan Won’t End Inflated Defense Spending. While preparing to consider big cuts to the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, Congress is simultaneously advancing a defense spending plan that would pay out more than twice that in the same time period. https://jacobinmag.com/2021/10/forever-wars-defense-spending-us-miilitary-pentagon-afghanistan-congress-legislation 24 comments politics
- After a decade of falling pay, US Federal Reserve acts to stop “wage inflation” https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/28/pers-s28.html 8 comments economy
- UK Households are more than £800 worse off after Brexit, study says - The average household is paying £404 a year extra due to price inflation while the average worker has lost £448 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-800-worse-off-households-food-poverty-inflation-a8064286.html 473 comments worldnews
- Real salaries shrinking by 1% a year: pay rising at slowest rate in two years and well below the rate of inflation http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2237289/pay-rising-slowest-rate-years-rate-inflation.html 9 comments economy
- They tell us pay rises should not keep pace with inflation. They have no such qualms about corporate profits racing ahead of both. https://twitter.com/BeckettUnite/status/1539246166369611776 1250 comments economy
- You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share. https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1525234935346483210 605 comments economy
- Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation https://www.reddit.com/user/Fatherthinger/comments/rg4he3/worker_pay_isnt_keeping_up_with_inflation/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf 22 comments economy
- Central bankers complaining about how inflation is a pay cut to them, oh the irony https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-24/ecb-staff-union-demands-more-pay-to-guard-against-inflation 10 comments cryptocurrency
- Ukraine is flat broke. Kiev is running out of hard currency reserves to pay its foreign debts. Inflation is at 60 percent due to huge increases in gas prices. The country’s economy collapsed at an annualized rate of 17 percent last quarter. A full-scale economic depression is unfolding. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/03/why-investors-who-bet-big-on-ukraine-should-shoulder-their-own-losses/ 69 comments europe
- Ukraine is flat broke. Kiev is running out of hard currency reserves to pay its foreign debts. Inflation is at 60 percent due to huge increases in gas prices. The country’s economy collapsed at an annualized rate of 17 percent last quarter. A full-scale economic depression is unfolding. http://reut.rs/1anggd6 254 comments worldnews
- Britain's top directors condemned as "elite greedy pigs" after a 49% pay rise last year, while average workers failed even to keep up with inflation http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/business-as-usual-top-directors-get-49-per-cent-pay-rise-2376929.html 621 comments worldnews
- The Cause of Inflation: The Solution to Prevent the Collapse of Society | The cause of inflation is property appreciation from the rich not wanting to pay interest; started in early 1700s; every financial crisis followed; solution for the future: halt appreciation; UBI of $3700 locked with COL/Rent. https://medium.com/gitresearch/the-cause-of-inflation-the-solution-to-prevent-the-collapse-of-society-611c88b92256 269 comments futurology
- Google boosted base pay for 4 top execs to $1 million and handed them up to $34 million in stock, weeks after refusing to raise wages to meet inflation https://www.businessinsider.com/google-bumps-execs-pay-inflation-raise-2022-1 3 comments technology
- Giant corporations are making record profits by increasing prices, and CEOs are saying the quiet part out loud: they’re happy to help drive inflation. American families pay higher prices and corporate executives get fatter bonuses. See for yourself what executives are saying. https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1493396702803513347 7 comments economy
- Amaury made this statement a couple weeks ago and I'm curious to see if the sub agrees: "Investor[sic] pay the miners via inflation". https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9180l5/dr_craig_s_wright_miners_are_bitcoin_time_the/e2w49za/?context=3 120 comments btc
- UK - Pay overtakes inflation, real wages growing again, jobless rate hits 42-year low https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2018/apr/17/pound-brexit-high-uk-pay-wages-inflation-unemployment-rate-business-live?page=with:block-5ad5affee4b0c0e005205b1e#block-5ad5affee4b0c0e005205b1e 72 comments europe
- Bernie Sanders Addresses Inflation Concerns About Minimum Wage Hike: "You May Pay A Couple Cents More For A Hamburger At McDonalds" http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/18/bernie_sanders_addresses_inflation_concerns_about_minimum_wage_hike_you_may_pay_a_couple_cents_more_for_a_cheeseburger_at_mcdonalds.html 14 comments politics
- If the government spends $1 million dollars a day to pay off the national debt, assuming a balanced budget and no inflation, how long will it take? https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/american-civics-subject/american-civics/v/government-s-financial-condition 9 comments politics
- News Wrap: Hyundai, Kia to pay $100 million over inflated gas mileage figures http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/news-wrap-hyundai-kia-pay-100-million-inflated-gas-mileage-figures/ 24 comments business
- Blame inflation if you're still helping your adult kids pay their bills, says 'Shark Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-living-costs-affordability-crisis-oleary-shark-tank-economy-fed-2024-2 19 comments economy
- Amazon's Bezos criticizes Biden over inflation tweet. Jeff Bezos took aim at Joe Biden over the president’s tweet that said inflation could be brought down by taxing wealthy corporations. Biden: “You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.” https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/14/amazons-bezos-criticizes-biden-over-inflation-tweet.html 72 comments economy
- Top pay in UK up by 11% as workers’ wages fail to match inflation - Pay for chief executives at Britain’s biggest listed companies rose more than six times faster than wages in the wider workforce last year as the average boss’s pay packet hit £3.9m. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/15/uk-top-bosses-pay-rise-average-earnings-hit-39m-2017-high-pay-centre 3 comments worldnews
- Inflated Salaries: Merkel Joins German Battle Against Executive Pay - Both the EU & Switzerland have drawn a line in the sand when it comes to excessive compensation packages. Now, Berlin is to cap salaries. For Merkel, this is a U-turn, but with growing public discontent, she had little choice. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/merkel-to-take-action-against-exorbitant-manager-salaries-in-germany-a-888332.html 99 comments worldnews
- How can we send a message to business that we would prefer to patronize those that pay a living wage? (Headline: "Sen. John Thune, opposing $15 min wage, says he earned $6 as a kid—that's $24 with inflation") https://www.newsweek.com/sen-john-thune-opposing-15-min-wage-says-he-earned-6-kidthats-24-inflation-1571915 4 comments politics
- Workers represented by Argentina's main labor union gathered on the streets of Buenos Aires to protest job cuts and pay raises that have not kept up with inflation, challenging the government seven months ahead of key congressional elections http://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-protests-iduskbn16e2ez 3 comments worldnews