Inflation Gardens and Other Stories

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It's the most abstract of the economic stats and yet, it's the most personal. It's the one that often has turned Presidents into crusaders. And sometimes turned the American people into the critical actors, volunteers or even 'the problem'. Pins, gardens and tough talk on this episode about Presidents, shrinking dollars, and rising prices. We are part of Airwave Media Network. Interested in advertising on the podcast? Contact sales@advertisecast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
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0:34.6	He slammed him and the weapon was a word.
0:37.9	Inflation.
0:38.6	Inflation?
0:39.6	More inflation.
0:41.6	Jimmy Carter managed to use it against President Ford four times in their first televised presidential
0:47.6	debate.
0:48.8	A confused government, he said.
0:50.8	A wasteful defense establishment, he said.
0:53.3	Controlling inflation. And high inflation. Then later, the worst inflation since the Great Depression.
1:00.7	The inflation rate under Kennedy and Johnson was 2%. One third of what it is under this administration.
1:07.5	The blows hurt, because for President Ford, inflation was specifically a targeted problem.
1:12.6	I will not take your time today with the discussion of the origins of inflation and its bad effect on the United States.
1:19.6	But I do know where we want to be in 1976.
1:25.6	That he set out
1:27.6	having taken over after Nixon's
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