Speaking at the Greek radio broadcaster Real FM 107,1, the Greek economist, Yanis Varoufakis, revealed the real reason behind the outrageously high natural gas prices, which can't be justified only by the war in Ukraine and Putin's actions to cut supplies to Europe.
As he pointed out, the biggest part of the rise of natural gas prices is due to the stock market games. Prices should rise by 80% at most, not 800%. The rest of this hyper-profit is because big companies have already bought quantities of natural gas for the next two years. So, they don't sell it now in order to boost its price and sell it later at much higher price.
Yet, the worst part of the story is that these financial games often create bubbles - similar to the Lehman Brothers bubble in 2008 that led to the Wall Street collapse - so we are now to the point where the German government is forced to subsidize big companies with billions, exactly because they play these risky financial games in the stock market.
This is what zombie capitalism has become. The working class is being robbed twice: first through the outrageous boost of the price in energy and all basic goods, second through heavy taxation destined to subsidize the big fraudsters.
Naturally, the gap of inequality will continue to grow rapidly.
Naturally, the gap of inequality will continue to grow rapidly.
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