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Catherine Rampell & JVL on Oil Price Spikes, Awful Inflation, Record Debt | Receipts Live

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Catherine Rampell and JVL went live to discuss the week's economic and financial news.

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0:00.0

Hello, friends, as Jim Nance would say.

0:03.5

I'm JVL here with my bulwark colleague,

0:07.3

Catherine Rempel, author of our receipts newsletter,

0:11.2

the best newsletter about economics that you'll find anywhere on these internet tubes of ours.

0:17.2

Catherine, happy 60th day of the war with Iran? I feel like happy is maybe not the right

0:26.3

word I would use. Okay. I would say it's like on Yom Kippur, you don't wish someone a happy Yom Kippur.

0:39.1

You say like have an easy fast because it's a very grave event.

0:45.3

I feel like for this milestone in the war, maybe it's have an easy 60th day of the war.

0:54.0

Okay. Something along those lines. of the war. Okay.

0:54.4

Something along those lines.

0:56.1

Maybe.

0:56.3

Maybe.

0:56.7

But if you're a fan of personal accountability, as I am, then this is a really a great day,

1:05.7

a day of learning, possibly a day of atonement.

1:09.4

And because this week, gas prices have gone to the moon

1:16.2

we show people the national average from triple a now these are pretty big numbers you know

1:23.5

when you're seeing nine cent jumps day on day, that's pretty rough.

1:31.2

But when you look at the last week in certain states, Matt, show our gas buddy numbers here.

1:39.3

Yeah.

1:40.0

This is a one week change, Indiana, up a $1.9.

1:46.1

Ohio, where there is a Senate race, important Senate race coming up.

1:50.3

94 cents.

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