Right, so I’m talking about real inflation. What you’re talking about would be fraud. The way companies commit this fraud is by leaning on the "well, prices of manufacturing went up! Won’t you think of the shareholders?!?! 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 " But the input price data is generally seen as proprietary data, so it’s not public shareholder data.

Still fuckin’ fraud, though. It also takes coordination and collusion, which is price-fixing, and is illegal.