The American Prospect | B Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP
While some inevitably blame President Biden, there is also a bipartisan belief among the electorate, including 45 percent of Republicans, that corporate greed is playing a large role in inflation. There are countless examples that bear out this assessment. RealPage’s algorithmic rent-setting, which is simply collusion by corporate landlords via a third party, has wreaked havoc in rental markets across the country. Oil and gas companies attempted to collude to artificially inflate prices.