What Adam Tooze thinks about inflation

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Economic historian, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Wages of Destruction, Crashed and Shutdown. Writes the Chartbook newsletter.

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1. 22 Jul 2026

   Our readingEurope's carmakers spent the early 2020s raising prices and profits at their customers' expense, and narrowed their own market doing it.

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   Their wordsTo put this same story another way, the European car industry in the early 2020s was a prime example of greedflation i.e. companies taking advantage of the COVID shock and other disruptions and to hike profits at the expense of consumers.

   ↗Chartbook 460 Greedflation meets China shock: Can Europe's car industry be saved without making the cost of living crisis worse?adamtooze.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece