Today for Tough Times Tuesday, we unpack a messy economic topic that has been such good fodder for clickbait.

Recent talk of price-fixing, price-gouging, and underlying anxieties about inflation and antitrust actions have made for a perfect storm of disempowered market participants and economic analysis that fixates on how "everyone else is wrong".

How do we build a media ecosystem that encourages knowledge-sharing in a useful way instead?

#Economics #MediaLiteracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-loaded-language-of-price-fixing