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Sometimes I look at the prices I'm paying at the grocery store, or the way my electric

bill is skyrocketing. And I wonder, how did we get here? Here being this very weird economy

whose chief feature at the moment seems to be ballooning inflation. It does not help

that I have a car, and that car needs gas. It is nearly five bucks a gallon where I live.

It's the only price that every single American sees a sign for on every stretch of every

highway. Right? Like it's the most, it's the most omnipresent price that Americans regularly

encounter, except for maybe milk, no even more so than milk. There aren't highway

signs with milk prices. Slates Jordan Weisman is the guy I call when I have questions

about the economy. And I've got a ton of those at the moment.

I feel like there's so many things happening at once in the economy right now. Like housing

prices are really high. The stock market is behaving erratically. And of course inflation

is like all around. Do all these things have the same cause?

That is a interesting question. That's kind of a philosophical question.

Like, you know how I do, Jordan. You know, it depends on how you want to answer that

question. I'm going to say no, but you could say yes. All right, depends on how you want to look at it.

Jordan is like the Marie condo of the economy. By that, I mean, he loves mess. What he sees right now,

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