So whaddya wanna know about inflation?

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

It’s Whaddya Wanna Know Wednesday, and Kai’s flying solo today, focusing on your inflation questions. Like which grocery store items are used to calculate inflation numbers? Could lifting the tariffs on China lower prices at the cash register? Is what we’re seeing really inflation or plain old corporate greed?

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Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

Yellen Says Cutting Some Tariffs on Chinese Goods Could Ease Price Pressures from U.S. News & World Report
Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans and bad for rich people from CNN
Despite higher wages, inflation gave average worker a 2.4% pay cut last year from CNBC
White House economists push back against pressure to blame corporations for inflation from The Washington Post

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh man, new guy engineers not even like the briefest hints of an anything holy cow.
0:08.5	Jake Cherry welcome to marketplace.
0:10.1	Anyway, hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rosdal welcome back to make me smart.
0:13.2	Making today makes sense is what we do here.
0:15.4	It is of course.
0:16.4	What do you want to know Wednesday and listen?
0:17.7	I got some bad news.
0:19.8	Just me today.
0:20.8	Just me.
0:21.8	No Kimberly, no Maryl, no Samfields, just me.
0:25.6	But that's on purpose because props to Bridget Bondner, producer, extraordinary.
0:29.6	She said, listen, what if we just do an inflation, what do you want to know Wednesday and you
0:33.4	just answer questions?
0:34.6	So that's what I'm going to do.
0:37.4	Your question is about inflation.
0:39.1	Some of them quick, some of them slightly longer.
0:41.2	We'll mix it up a little bit.
0:42.2	We'll do 15 minutes and then we'll get going.
0:46.2	Not only are we doing something a little different with the format of the show today, we're
0:49.2	doing something a little different, I think, ever with the show today.
0:53.0	And that's having a live call in listener actually come on the phone and ask me a question.
0:58.6	So person on the phone, who are you?
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