Catherine Rampell
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759 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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I think it's partly that it's just not intuitive.
People remember life being cheaper, particularly pre-pandemic life.
They remember it being cheaper.
And so it seems like a reasonable thing to ask.
of your public officials, whether elected officials or those at the Federal Reserve, let's say, that why can't things go back to the way that they were?
And if you explain to them, well, actually, the Federal Reserve is targeting an overall price increase of 2 percent and not a negative, like none of this is like obvious to anyone.
And that's that's reasonable.
And most of the time, Americans don't really care because price growth is so slow that they have time to adjust.
Right.
If we have a two percent average price increase year over year, which we had for many, many years.
You know, it doesn't feel that painful, particularly since your wages are probably going up by that much or more.
So life feels about as affordable as it did a year before or two years before or five years before.
What's different recently is that we did have this very sudden surge in inflation.
in the several years following the pandemic.
And so the lower prices that people had recently experienced were still very fresh in people's memories.
I assume so.
You know, you can lie to the American public about a lot of things, but they see what's happening in their bank account.
They see what's happening when they get rung up at the grocery store.
So I think it is harder to pull the wool over people's eyes when they are actually paying their own bills.
Now, to be fair...
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