The last mile of the inflation fight just got bumpy
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Inflation is coming in hot! Today’s consumer price index shows prices kept rising in March. Kai Ryssdal explains the one thing everybody should be doing right about now in addition to taking a deep breath! Plus, the rising cost of insurance — from homeowners coverage to life insurance — and what companies are doing to dump customers. Also, hear a whale talk to a scientist.
Here’s everything we talk about today:
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- “Hot Inflation Report Derails Case for Fed’s June Rate Cut” from The Wall Street Journal
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- “Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky” from The Wall Street Journal
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- “The Soaring Cost of Homeowners Insurance” from Comstock’s Magazine
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- Solar Grazing Resources from the American Solar Grazing Association
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Marketplace listeners, you know around here we like to think you're never too young to learn about the economy and financial basics. |
| 0:05.6 | That's why we're bringing the million bazillion live tour to school to teach important lessons about budgeting, investing, saving, and more. |
| 0:12.8 | It's all the fun of the podcast, but now live, |
| 0:15.4 | immersive and interactive. |
| 0:17.4 | Special thanks to our tour partner, Green Light, |
| 0:19.8 | the debit card and money app for kids and teens. |
| 0:22.6 | Learn more about greenlight at greenlight.com |
| 0:25.1 | slash million. |
| 0:26.4 | That is green light dot com slash million. |
| 0:28.8 | All right, Jake, let's go. |
| 0:30.2 | Enough of this freaking old timer stuff. |
| 0:32.2 | Old people stuff. Old people stuff. |
| 0:34.0 | Speak for yourself, sister. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Kara Rizdow. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:38.0 | Where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:40.0 | And I am the very youthful Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us this Wednesday. It's April 10th. Today we are going to do some news and then some smiles. Let's get to it. Kai, you've got the big news of the day. |
| 0:52.6 | Well, so the big news of the day, |
| 0:53.7 | which everybody will have heard by the time |
| 0:55.1 | they hear this podcast, which is that inflation |
| 0:57.9 | for last month, the CPI came in this morning, |
| 0:59.8 | core at 3.8% annually, |
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