The inflation problem.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday, President Biden addressed the country on inflation, telling Americans he understands what they are grappling with and that solving the issue is his top priority. A spike in inflation has pushed the consumer price index up 8% annually, and the average cost of gas per gallon hit a new high on Tuesday. Plus, a listener question about the trustworthiness of news sources.
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| 0:40.9 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:05.6 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about inflation. |
| 1:11.7 | Some of the latest numbers we just got this morning on inflation and what the Biden administration is trying to do |
| 1:17.3 | about it. As always, before we jump in, we'll start off with some quick hits. |
| 1:36.9 | In West Virginia, the Trump endorsed Alex Mooney beat fellow incumbent David McKinley in the second congressional district primary. |
| 1:45.6 | In Nebraska, Republicans nominated Jim Pellon for governor over the Trump endorsed Charles Her Charles Herbster who faced allegations of groping. |
| 1:52.2 | Number two, Elon Musk said he would reverse Trump's Twitter ban if he became the owner of Twitter. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said he agreed with the decision. |
| 1:57.3 | Number three, the U.S. intelligence community says Russia is preparing for a prolonged war in Ukraine |
| 2:02.6 | that is likely to become more unpredictable and more escalatory. |
| 2:06.6 | Number four, gun homicides in the U.S. hit their highest levels since 1994 during the first year of the pandemic, |
| 2:13.6 | that is according to a new CDC report. |
| 2:23.2 | Number five, Palestinian American journalist Shereen Abu Akla was killed in the West Bank on Wednesday. Al Jazeera and the Palestinian authorities say she was shot by Israeli military forces |
| 2:28.8 | despite wearing a clearly marked press vest. |
| 2:47.1 | Today's report from the government is expected to show that America's 40-year high inflation has already peaked. |
| 2:48.4 | The big question now, when will prices start dropping? We're going to begin with |
| 2:53.0 | the latest on the critical inflation report for the White House to economists to Wall Street, |
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