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The Indicator from Planet Money

Are you afraid of inflation?

The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR

Business

4.79.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Boo! The Indicator team invites you to listen to a spooky episode about an invisible monster that has given our economy a fright. Listen at your own risk...

Transcript

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0:00.0

NPR.

0:07.3

Welcome to the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Stacey Bannick Smith.

0:12.8

Tonight, we bring you an economic horror story about a monster.

0:19.0

A monster that can hide in plain sight.

0:22.1

You don't even know it's there.

0:24.0

Until it's too late.

0:26.6

Settle in for a tale from the economic concretes.

0:34.6

Imagine a young child asleep in their bed, dreaming sweetly, until...

0:42.0

...unliked.

0:42.7

Mayor Stride.

0:43.7

The whole thing is free as I'm there.

0:45.1

Supply chain and shoes and inflation.

0:46.8

Much harder than expected in a place where it was shot.

0:48.7

Flation surge, etc.

0:50.2

Flation was September.

0:51.5

And how should the inflation be coming more like...

0:54.0

...it was probably the same old days.

0:58.1

Hey, hey, you okay, kid?

1:00.8

What's going on in here?

1:02.1

What kind of injury is that?

1:03.6

I had a bad dream.

1:04.9

Oh, it's okay. It's okay.

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