The U.S. has the steepest inflation in the G7
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🗓️ 15 July 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Though the latest inflation reports show price growth cooled a bit in June, U.S. inflation remains higher than its peer nations, which include the U.K., Canada, France, and Japan. President Trump’s tariffs are partially to blame. But so is hefty capital expenditure by AI giants. Can anything counterbalance all that spending? After that: Kai explains the utility of Beige Book “soft” data, IBM posts mediocre earnings, farmers fret over fertilizer prices, and student borrowers weather five years of policy whiplash.
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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 |
| 0:39.1 | 30 offices support over 1,000 organizations worldwide. GEP combines agentic AI with three |
| 0:46.6 | decades of procurement and supply chain data and expertise. Learn more at gEP.com. |
| 0:56.1 | Disinflation is the macroeconomic word of the day. |
| 1:00.6 | Farming is another word. |
| 1:02.8 | Artificial intelligence are two more. |
| 1:05.8 | From American public media. |
| 1:08.1 | This is Marketplace. |
| 1:19.0 | Music Public Media. This is Marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle, Rizzdall. |
| 1:21.4 | It is Wednesday. |
| 1:22.7 | Today, this one is the 15th of July. |
| 1:24.7 | Good, as it always is, to have you along, everybody. |
| 1:28.3 | It's helpful, I think, every now and then to step back and take stock, see where things |
| 1:33.2 | stand. |
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