Tag: inflating

The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs

Americans are paying too much for prescription drugs. It is a common, long-standing complaint. And the culprits seem obvious: Drug companies. Insurers. A dysfunctional federal government. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times But there is another collection of powerful forces that often escape attention, because they operate in the bowels […]

Russia Grain Trader Accuses Moscow of Inflating Prices

(Bloomberg) — Major Russian grain exporter TD Rif has accused Moscow of trying to control and inflate export prices, another escalation in a dispute between the government and one of the country’s biggest wheat traders. Most Read from Bloomberg The shipper accused the country’s agriculture ministry of encouraging inflated offer prices in a letter to […]