> Unless you are proposing that every company in the world is secretly conspiring together to raise prices Is it really "conspiring" when economists speculate

> Unless you are proposing that every company in the world is secretly conspiring together to raise prices Is it really "conspiring" when economists speculate that inflation is coming and businesses fulfill that prophecy to either enrich or insulate themselves? It's not even a stretch, just obvious. Curious how much inflation would happen if it weren't announced that it's time to do inflation.