U.S. consumer prices have remained high after pandemic-era supply shocks eased, while the source argues that large companies have used constrained supply and pricing power to preserve wider profit margins. It cites a rise in average markups over cost from 56% in 2020 to 72% in 2021, corporate profits of $4.42 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, and S&P 500 net profit margins of 16.9% in the second quarter of 2026. The source also cites $1.28 trillion in credit-card debt in the fourth quarter of 2025 and says 111 million Americans could not pay their balances in full each month. The source describes “rockets and feathers,” or asymmetric price transmission, in which prices rise quickly with costs but decline slowly when costs fall. It links the pattern to consumer categories including groceries, rent, gasoline, automobiles, insurance and pharmaceuticals, while also citing prior price-fixing cases across several industries. A June 2026 class action alleged that Samsung, SK hynix and Micron coordinated DRAM supply reductions; the allegations remain unproven. After the Supreme Court invalidated IEEPA tariffs in February 2026, the source says about $166 billion in company refunds became available and that companies did not generally lower consumer prices. It calls for consumers to delay discretionary purchases, compare prices and organize boycotts, citing Croatia’s 2025 retail boycott as an example of pressure that preceded price cuts and expanded price caps.

Kagi updated its Search and Assistant products on August 21, 2026, adding a redesigned Stocks widget, expanded Assistant search tools, and new retention controls for temporary chats. The Stocks widget now supports exchange-traded funds alongside individual stocks, includes price charts, and animates transitions between selected time windows. Kagi says the widget will appear more often in relevant searches. Search users can also enable a setting that automatically removes paywalled links from results. Kagi Assistant now renders links, Markdown, and LaTeX in user messages. Users can search across all conversation threads, sort results by recency or alphabetically, and use “/” to begin filtering by folder. Temporary Assistant threads can be retained for 24 hours, seven days, or 30 days. The update also includes bulk export of Assistant chats, controls for prompt submission behavior, expandable thinking sections, code-fence syntax highlighting, and protections intended to prevent search-engine indexing of shared Assistant threads. Additional fixes cover Search lenses, shortcuts, Quick Answer source handling, URL behavior, mobile navigation, web-search toggle persistence, speech-to-text pauses on Android, iOS login, and Kagi Translate extension and preset issues.

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