Rents, retirees and rail strikes

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's been a busy week for the economy: our key indicators cover key topics related to social security increases, rent and its relationship with recent CPI data, and a looming rail strike. All aboard!

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:10.0	This is the integrator from Planet Money.
0:13.6	I'm Darian Woods and I'm here with Adrian Mah.
0:16.0	What's up?
0:17.0	And we also have from KCUR in Kansas City, Frank Morris.
0:21.2	Welcome to the show Frank.
0:22.8	Thank you so much for having me.
0:24.2	So listeners, you might have heard Frank before on NPR or KCUR, but if you haven't, he
0:29.7	covers agriculture and rural life in the Midwest and also logistics.
0:35.3	Which is why Frank is here today.
0:37.3	Frank are going to drop some interesting indicators about the supply chain and the still apparently
0:42.5	looming rail strike.
0:43.9	Yeah.
0:44.9	This huge thing could happen and could really drive inflation crazy.
0:48.9	And that is not what we want to hear right now because the latest CPI, the consumer price
0:53.4	index came out yesterday and it's kind of looking pretty bad.
0:58.3	So for our indicators of the week, how inflation is showing up or could show up in even more
1:08.9	ways across the economy.
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