Catherine Rampell
speaker
159 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Sep
Catherine Rampell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I think it's partly some relief.
It's partly, yeah, just getting kind of inured to the volatility.
People still don't feel great about the economy, but maybe they're getting a little bit worn down in how shocked they feel by some of the volatility that's, you know, as Sudip pointed out, related to the war, related to tariffs.
I mean, we haven't even mentioned the fact that tariffs are also feeding into inflation or, you know, at least one time price increases.
And Trump put in place a new round of tariffs relatively recently to replace an old round of tariffs that was expiring, which replaced a previous round of tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down.
And, you know, a little over a year ago, that was a huge event when Trump put in place his Liberation Day tariffs.
Right.
And now we're basically reconstructing that tariff wall and it gets lost in the news cycle.
And I think that that tells you a little bit about, again, how worn down consumers and just the general public are by this just kind of constant barrage of erratic policy changes.
And, you know, maybe at some point, like what seemed really shocking a year ago is less shocking today.
But certainly I would not say that the consumer sentiment numbers are great.
They continue to be pretty dour.
Hey, Kyle.
Hey, Kyle.
Almost who cares?
Not who cares, really, but it's like they're just so dated at this point.
This is the problem.
These numbers are always very backward-looking, not by design, but just like... Well, yeah, kind of by design, right?
Well, they're not intended to be backward-looking.
It's just that's the only option we have, I guess.
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