Why Does Fighting Inflation Have to Hurt So Much?
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jon is joined by Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, for a chat about why we find ourselves in this current inflation disaster and how we might get out of it. They get into whether the Fed is blowing it, the role of money supply, and whether anyone is looking out for the little guy in all of this monetary maneuvering. They don’t always agree, but Jon manages to score a passing grade from the professor! Plus, staff writers Kasaun Wilson and Henrik Blix are here talking about Kanye’s anti-Semitism and, of course, the Mets.
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CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Kasaun Wilson, Henrik Blix, Steve Hanke
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity Gray
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Engineer & Editor: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Freddie Morgan
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella Philipson
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Margorie McCurry, Lukas Thimm
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, Cassie Murdoch, Deniz Cam, Harjyot Ron Singh
Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem with Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast, produced by Busboy Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Case on how uncomfortable is it to hear two Jews complain about all this? |
| 0:03.7 | Wait, I'm not Jewish. |
| 0:05.6 | Oh really? |
| 0:06.5 | I've been sneaking in the meetings just because I like hanging out. |
| 0:09.1 | I thought you were in there. |
| 0:10.0 | Well then it's just me. |
| 0:10.9 | All right. |
| 0:11.6 | Would you like to make a reveal to the world right now? |
| 0:14.4 | I'm kind of, if you created a heat map of which countries in the world are most vulnerable to sunburn, that's me. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | It's the problem with me John Stewart. |
| 0:46.5 | The show is back on Apple TV Plus for season two. |
| 0:49.5 | Got ourselves our first episode on gender. |
| 0:52.0 | It's available right now. |
| 0:53.3 | We're free for free on Apple TV Plus. |
| 0:57.3 | The second episode is about taxes and how many of us are getting screwed. |
| 1:02.5 | And that is also available but it costs a million dollars. |
| 1:07.5 | A million! |
| 1:09.5 | We're going to have a very, very nice show tonight. |
| 1:12.4 | We're going to be talking to Steve Hanky who is an economist from Johns Hopkins University about what the Fed gets wrong about inflation. |
| 1:18.0 | And as always, we're going to have our writers around today. |
| 1:21.0 | It's Henrik Blix and Kesson Wilson. |
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