Night School, Class 2: Why high inflation persists

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Topher Forhecz

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4.4 • 350 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Inflation remains stubbornly high in the US. In this week’s episode of BTM: Night School, US managing editor Peter Spiegel talks to US economics editor Colby Smith about how we got here and what the Federal Reserve can do to tamp down inflation. This series is made in collaboration with Blinkist. To hear more conversations like this, check out the Blinkist app.

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0:35.0	I'm Peter Speeagle.
0:38.0	I'm the U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times.
0:40.0	B.T.M. Night School is a special series made in collaboration with Blinkist that will serve as a guide to the U.S. economy for 2023.
0:47.0	For tonight's lesson...
0:48.0	Some of the policy decisions that were made in the post-Covid era have really impacted the trajectory of
0:55.4	inflation in this country but it's also a global phenomenon and we have to keep
0:59.3	that in mind. We're joined by Colby Smith, the Financial Times's U.S. economics editor to talk inflation.
1:06.4	Inflation keeps going up, up, up.
1:08.9	Kobe will unpack what the federal government can do to counteract it and where inflation might be headed in the near future. Colby, why don't we start with sort of the big stand back? If we're thinking about the
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