Inflation and price increases are real—P&G just warned of $1 billion in profit hits from Iran war costs, and companies are using surveillance pricing algorithms to charge different customers different amounts. But the post frames this as primarily a 'billionaire price jacking' problem protected by regime loyalty, which oversimplifies. The actual story is messier: companies face genuine supply chain cost pressures (oil prices), but also have financial incentive to pass those costs on rather than absorb them, and are using algorithmic pricing to extract maximum profit. The regulatory protection piece is harder to verify—SEC/CFTC are actually rolling back Biden-era oversight of private funds, but whether this is billionaire 'cozying' or standard deregulation isn't established here.