Tangle: The inflation problem. In The New York Times, Lindsay Owens said “corporate profiteering” is the real culprit of inflation. “Curious how C.E.O.s were justifying higher prices, my team and I started listening in on hundreds of earnings calls, where, by law, companies have to tell the truth,” Owens wrote. “What was striking in the earnings calls was not the supply chain shortages or companies’ typical profit motives; it was the plain old corporate profiteering.”