Is Inflation Ova?
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss how the avian flu has skyrocketed egg prices, even as inflation continues to plateau. They also talk about the ongoing controversy over gas stoves and scrutinize a recent article about Columbia Business School’s new campus.
In the plus segment: Noma, an extravagant restaurant in Copenhagen hailed as the world’s best restaurant, is closing. What does that say about that status of “fine dining”?
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| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to the Is Inflation Over episode of Slate Money? Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of |
| 0:23.5 | Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. Hello hello? I'm here with |
| 0:27.2 | Elizabeth Spires. Hello. Elizabeth we are about to find out. did not eat eggs for breakfast this morning |
| 0:34.7 | Emily is going to tell us that it's because eggs are expensive we are going to talk about |
| 0:39.2 | the price of eggs and inflation more broadly which seems to be coming down, which is good news. |
| 0:45.0 | It's not coming down in eggs. We are going to talk about gas stoves, an induction. |
| 0:50.0 | We are going to talk about Columbia Business School and how much it has managed to |
| 0:55.4 | contrive to spend on its new campus. We are going to have a slate plus segment |
| 1:01.2 | on Noma tasting menus and the economics of fine dining. |
| 1:05.6 | It's all coming up on slate money. |
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| 1:43.0 | So we had a negative inflation print on Thursday morning when the inflation numbers came out. |
| 1:51.0 | Inflation went at prices, consumer prices actually went down |
| 1:56.1 | month on month. It looks like maybe Emily inflation is over except for those of us who like eggs? |
| 2:07.0 | Yes, that's it and the segment right there. |
| 2:11.0 | But yeah, I mean on Thursday last week the CPI numbers came out and they showed inflation cooling. |
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