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Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners.

Welcome to this week's show.

My name is Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host.

So today we're talking with Gene Epstein.

How you doing today, Gene?

Good thanks. We brought Gene on the show because, as probably a lot of you have noticed,

in your pocketbooks, inflation is hitting hard. And this is kind of a new concept to a lot of people,

because we've had this paradigm of low inflation for a long time. And I think it makes sense to really dive into this topic so you can

really understand what inflation means. So, Gene, tell us a little about your background,

kind of what you've done up to this point. On 2018, early 2018, I stepped down from a 26-year

stint as the economics and books editor of Barron's Financial Weekly.

For 25 of those 26 years, I wrote the weekly column, Economic Beat, and for the last 10 to 15 years of my stint,

I was also the book review editor.

And so I covered the economy every week with some orientation toward investor interest in the economy,

since Barron is basically a weekly for investors.

Prior to that, I was a senior economist at the New York Stock Exchange and gone far enough

back to list my credentials.

I wrote a book, published a book in 2006,

called Econo Spinning, which I guess is still in print, how to read between the lines when the media

manipulate the numbers. Since I left Barron's in early 2018, I've been freelancing articles

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