Sean Pyles

I'm Sean Piles.

Yeah, it's been a stressful week, to say the least.

We were staring down the barrel of a potential wipeout of a civilization a couple of days ago, and it feels like so much is still up in the air, including prices of seemingly everything.

It's just been really difficult to navigate.

So hopefully we can provide some clarity, at least on the finance side of things today.

So with that, Anna, hey, good to talk with you, I suppose.

Great.

So that's exactly what we need to hear, Anna.

I mean, so far, we've been seeing gas prices on the rise.

I'm paying about $5.60 a gallon here in Oregon.

But everything else seems decently stable for now, at least.

I mean, it seems like prices aren't going up any faster than they already were with tariffs in place.

So Ana, how do higher oil prices spread through the rest of the economy?

All right, well, let's turn to travel now because we have seen prices already begin to rise on things like airplane tickets.

Okay, and I imagine food is also going to get more expensive, what we're seeing at the grocery store, right?

Another plastic product that comes to mind is clothing.

A lot of clothing is made from synthetic fibers.

Okay, and you mentioned aluminum.

That's a pretty important material.

That's in everything from our phones to computers and soda cans, all of that.