"Why?", one might be excused for wondering.
Record profits across the board would be a reasonable answer.
Not just like "We're having a real good year" record profits... the highest record profits ever recorded record profits. "We raise prices and they just keep buying stuff, so we raise them some more" record profits.
Prices are high, n many cases, simply because corporations wish them to be high, and then higher, and because they have perverted our once-free markets
Businesses will always seek to raise prices to the levels that will maximize profits, and that the consumer will be willing to pay.
