Catherine Rampell
speaker
759 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Catherine Rampell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No.
When?
It was in spring of 2020.
Oh, God.
OK.
What else was going on?
I don't want to do that again.
Exactly.
What was going on in spring of 2020?
Well, there was a global pandemic.
People stopped driving to work.
Factories shut down.
Businesses of all kinds needed less energy.
There was a lot less demand for fuel.
And because there was less demand for fuel, that meant fuel was cheaper.
Gasoline was cheaper.
So if the overall price level is going down, not just one really salient good like gasoline, that often means an economy is very sick.
It basically means that everything is on a fire sale.
Consumers have stopped spending and everyone, every business out there is trying to cut their prices to lure consumers back in.
And if you are a consumer and you see prices already falling, you don't wanna be the chump who is like, I'm gonna buy something now only to see it get cheaper tomorrow.
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