What's a job so perfect for you that the Sunday scurries ahead of the dreaded work week would be a thing of the past?

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. First, the price of crude just went from down 1% to now up 1%.

112.50 a barrel now, with no clarity on the status of U.S. Iran talks. And this after the oil

producers' cartel, OPEC plus, agreed over the weekend to slightly increase production to try to

take the edge off prices. But what is the reality economist Julia Coronado, founder of

macro policy perspectives? The reality is that the St of Hormuz is closed, and most of

that production simply is impossible at this moment. And the price of crude is high today in the

$110 barrel range. Now, on Thursday, we get from the U.S. government a revision of GDP economic

growth. It's a bit of a history lesson, covers October to December of last year, which seems like a long time ago.

It does indeed. And in fact, the very next day, we will get the inflation data for March. And that's going to tell us the more forward-looking story, which is the first look where we're going to see the inflation that Americans are having to absorb tied to the war in Iran.

All right. Well, we'll be here for that.

So, David, if I may ask you a question, I hear you're leaving this show.

Yep, after 13 years. What have we been through here? You and I, we did Brexit together,

meme stocks. I mean, a lot of water under this news bridge, right? Supply chain, inflation and

pandemic. Tariffs, reverse globalization that we're going through now.

Yes, and often the resiliency of the U.S. economy surprising us to the upside.

I'm not leaving, leaving, though, Julia. I'm staying at Marketplace with a new beat to cover future effects, decisions made now that shape our futures, personal finance,

innovation, and government policy. So you can probably still help me with that.

Well, I look forward to seeing what you do next, David. It will be an exciting chapter,

but we will miss you on the morning beat. Thank you very much. But I'm still on the morning beat

through Friday. Julia Coronado is also a professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

Thank you.

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