A new Fed chair stares down inflation.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for April, which showed an increase of 3.8% from a year earlier, slightly higher than economists’ expectations. The latest inflation figures represent the highest annual increase since May 2023, up from 3.3% in March. On a month-to-month basis, prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.6% after rising 0.9% in March. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.4% for the month, its highest pace since January 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good, and good evening. |
| 0:21.7 | And welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm your host today, senior editor, Will Kayback. |
| 0:32.7 | Today we're going to be diving into the latest inflation report, which was just released this week and showed |
| 0:38.8 | inflation running hot again for the second consecutive month, particularly driven by energy prices, |
| 0:45.5 | which are, of course, being affected by the war in the Middle East. So we're going to look |
| 0:49.5 | into what those numbers tell us about where we could be headed, whether inflation will continue to get |
| 0:55.6 | worse or whether this could be more of a blip on the radar, as President Trump has argued. |
| 1:00.3 | We're also going to talk about how the current summit between President Trump and Chinese |
| 1:05.5 | President Xi Jinping in China could affect the trajectory of the war, and as a downstream consequence of that, |
| 1:12.0 | inflation and global prices and the oil markets. |
| 1:15.5 | Before we get into all of that, wanted to share that we have a new episode of Suspension of the Rules |
| 1:20.0 | releasing today. This was one in which Isaac and Ari and Camille let a little bit more loose |
| 1:25.9 | than normal. I know they're typically pretty |
| 1:27.8 | loose on the show, but I think you'll enjoy the tone of this one's in particular. This one had a lot |
| 1:33.1 | to discuss. Most recently, a report that came out yesterday that Senator Rand Paul's son hurled |
| 1:38.8 | anti-Semitic remarks at Representative Mike Lawler in front of a reporter in Washington, D.C., recently. |
| 1:45.3 | They also talked about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's potential political ambitions, |
| 1:50.6 | as well as some of the lessons that the media should have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, |
| 1:55.5 | but perhaps did not. |
| 1:57.4 | So please head over to our YouTube to check it out. |
| 1:59.9 | We'll also post it on our podcast page if you prefer to just listen there. But it's out now our YouTube to check it out. We'll also post it on our podcast page |
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