people were raising prices because they could and then they were raising prices because they saw other people raising prices and it kind of

Turned into a self fulfilling spiral. So that's something that can happen

But it hasn't happened in America for a really long time

So do you ask what was an overheated economy looked like you know unless you're pretty much my age

You've never seen anything that really felt like an overheated economy. This is Sarah and Beth

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics the home of Grace filled political conversations

In our first segment today, we're going to tackle some heartbreaking news as well as some really hopeful news stories

Then we'll share a conversation we had with Paul Krugman

Economist professor author of many books including arguing with zombies and columnists for the New York Times

He helped us think about labor and economics and why the current rhetoric about inflation seems off to him

Especially as it relates to the infrastructure packages

I know I learned a lot and got some clarity from this conversation. So I hope you will too and then outside of politics

We're going to talk about what we're lovingly calling people being jerks

There seems to be an awful lot of really bad behavior in the world right now

Spanning from rude interactions with customer service workers to people trying to get into airplane

Cockpits and we're going to talk about what we think's going on there and how it kind of ties in with the moment that we're all living through

But before we get started we wanted to remind you that our infrastructure series is coming if you're on social media

You probably saw the amazing graphics Kathleen Shannon made to promote the series and Sarah heard this morning that we are like right on target with our July programming

Yeah, I was listening to MPRs up first and Susan David's their congressional correspondent came on and said

Yes, infrastructure talks are going to dominate July and I thought I think that's a thoughtful of them to plan it this way

It's really really considerate that they have placed this momentous

legislation and the momentum for this legislation right in the middle of our special summer series. It's just really great guys

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