The Real Costs: Special Coverage from "Marketplace"
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
These are tumultuous times in the economy. Inflation is still happening, the job market is weakening, and there's uncertainty over tariffs and other federal policies. But the headlines don’t capture the real costs of everything happening right now. Today, Kai Ryssdal is popping into your feed with special coverage and reporting from “Marketplace" to explore the way we measure this economy and what’s at stake if those statistics become suspect.
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| 1:08.3 | times in this economy. The basics, you know, inflation is still happening, |
| 1:13.3 | the job market is weakening, tariffs and uncertainty lather rinse repeat. But the news of the day, |
| 1:20.7 | because there are things every day, it doesn't quite capture the real costs of what's happening |
| 1:26.4 | out there. We are going to begin with |
| 1:28.7 | and talk a lot today about the way we measure this economy and the costs that come if we can't |
| 1:34.3 | rely on some of the key indicators. Those of us in the economic journalism world are far from the |
| 1:39.3 | only ones glued to our screens when these reports come out, you know, and we all use it in different ways. |
| 1:45.2 | So to start us off, we've called Nicole's survey. She's an economist at Wells Fargo. And we're |
| 1:49.7 | going to talk to her about the data point of choice that she uses at the moment, the consumer |
| 1:53.8 | price index and how it fits into her day to day. Nicole, it's good to have you on. Thanks for having me. |
| 2:00.1 | Let's go back to Tuesday morning. Nicole, it's good to have you on. Thanks for having me. Let's go back to Tuesday morning |
| 2:03.6 | and you get out of bed at whatever time you get out of bed. Is your first thought, ooh, |
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