The AI inflation roller coaster
Marketplace
Marketplace
4.6 • 8.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Economists are forecasting that AI is likely to cause prices to rise over the course of the next year. On Thursday, both Microsoft and Apple said they’re raising prices some of their flagship products thanks to skyrocketing memory and storage costs. But AI could end up making a whole lot of things cheaper — eventually. Also in this episode: how one union negotiated huge savings on healthcare prices, a look at the garage sale culture in Alaska, and the return of the restaurant matchbook.
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| 0:00.0 | For decades, companies built their procurement and supply chains around cost and efficiency. |
| 0:05.7 | Today, that's no longer enough. |
| 0:08.1 | Wars, trade conflicts, and the regionalization of trade have changed the rules. |
| 0:13.2 | Companies still need to control costs, but they also need to reduce risk and respond faster to disruptions and shocks. |
| 0:20.6 | GEP helps the world's leading enterprises do exactly that. |
| 0:24.8 | Through its AI-native quantum intelligence platform and services, |
| 0:28.8 | GEP helps companies gain visibility, predict and manage risk, |
| 0:32.9 | and make smarter capital investments across their global value chain. |
| 0:36.6 | More than 7,000 employees across 30 offices support over 1,000 organizations worldwide. |
| 0:43.6 | GEP combines agenic AI with three decades of procurement and supply chain data and expertise. |
| 0:50.7 | Learn more at gEP.com. |
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| 1:25.8 | Five days in this economy, seven minutes to sort it all out. |
| 1:29.8 | Let's see how we do, huh? |
| 1:32.6 | From American public media. |
| 1:35.1 | This is Marketplace. |
| 1:42.0 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzdahl. |
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