Political Implications of Inflation

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report this week, and our hosts are here to talk through it. What does this all mean for the upcoming midterms and 2024? They will discuss that too. Plus, Sweden and Finland are looking to join NATO. What does this mean for the Western alliance? What should we expect from Russia? Show Notes: -TMD: “Light at the End of the Inflation Tunnel?” -The Sweep: “Tsunami or Ripple? What a Midterm Wave Might Look Like.” -The Sweep: “To Agenda or Not? That Is the Question for the GOP.” -TMD: “Finland and Sweden Weighing NATO Bids” -New York Times: “Military Memo Deepens Possible Interstellar Meteor Mystery” -WUSA: “Teens among seven people arrested after detectives find dog reportedly taken at gunpoint” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:02.1	I'm your host Sarah Isger,
0:03.4	joined by Jonah Goldberg, David French,
0:06.0	and Steve Hayes, which is the clockwise order.
0:09.8	Nope, counterclockwise order that I'm looking at them right now.
0:12.9	We have plenty to discuss.
0:14.7	We'll start with inflation and some of the other big picture trends
0:17.7	happening in the country.
0:19.0	Move on to the political implications, not just in 2022,
0:23.2	but ahead to 2024 as well.
0:25.8	And then Sweden and Finland, latest with NATO,
0:30.6	and lastly, we'll end with things that weren't important enough
0:33.6	to make it into this podcast.
0:49.9	Steve, I want to start with you.
0:51.7	Will you walk listeners through the difference
0:54.9	between the consumer price index inflation numbers
0:58.8	that we saw, which were sky high,
1:01.4	worst in 41 years, bad, versus core inflation,
1:06.9	and why that has a little more hope in it?
1:11.1	I mean, no, no, I won't.
1:13.6	I don't know those details.
1:15.1	I thought this was your issue.
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