Stacey Vanek-Smith

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2,095 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers · The Fed Raised Rates. Here's What It's Fighting. | Off The Clock · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

You're just on the bad part of that spiral.

And I think a lot of I mean, there are more people I you know, demographically there are just more and more people turning sixty five e every day and a larger share of the American population.

And they are not

Their wages they're not necessarily making wages.

Are you gonna give the okay boomer argument?

Sorry, go ahead.

Okay.

Okay, economist.

Puzzled.

This is interesting because I feel like this is something I hear from economists a lot, looking at the data.

And I want to kind of dig in here because I feel like this is sort of at the heart of um what the great Kyla Scamlin dubbed the vibe session, which is economists are looking at the data and being like, well, wages have kept up with inflation.

But social security gets ingested and that is true.

And somehow it feels like we can't afford anything.

Like I don't actually know.

I mean, everything you're saying makes absolute sense, but

I actually think there is validity to how the economy feels as well as just what the numbers tell us.

Um, which is probably a very journalisty, compliety thing to say, but I really

I think I mean, if you are on a fixed income, even if social security gets adjusted up with inflation, it gets adjusted up with the average.

Oh, but so okay, social security.

But yes, so if social security gets adjusted up, I mean it gets adjusted up like the average l rate of inflation, I imagine.

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