This year's election has touched on a lot of different issues, but there's one thing the candidates can't seem to stop talking about.

Listen, I know prices are too high still. You know prices are too high still.

We have an inflation crisis. I will take on the high costs that matter most to most Americans.

This is inflation.

This is what's happened.

A loaf of bread cost 50% more today than it did before the pandemic.

Baby formula is up 30%, flowers up 38%. Ground beef is up almost 50%.

Eggs are up 46% and many items are up at much higher rates than that. And voters are talking

about it too. One thing we learned over the last few years is that people really hate inflation, and so of course

it's going to be a salient political issue.

That's our colleague Nick Timrose, Chief Economics correspondent.

After two years of rising prices, the rate of inflation is slowed down dramatically, but

the country is still on edge, and the government hasn't declared victory yet.

Both candidates agree that inflation is a problem, but when you look at their actual plans,

are either of them good for inflation?

They both take different approaches. Let's put it that way. They both take different approaches

to dealing with

inflation. And economists have questions about both of them, but really more about one of them

in terms of whether that's going to create more risks for inflation going forward.

Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Ryan Knutzen.

It's Monday, November 4th.

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