Stacey Vanek-Smith
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2,095 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
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If something got two percent more expensive over a year, I probably wouldn't notice.
Right.
If something cost one hundred dollars and I knew that if I didn't buy it now and waited for a year, it would cost one hundred and two dollars more.
I wouldn't be like, well, I've got to buy it now.
Whereas if I knew next year it was going to cost $200, I would run out and buy it, which is what happens when inflation gets really hot.
And you wanted a little, this is also something that's so interesting.
I remember when I first started reporting on inflation, I was, you know, it's like you don't, as economists, you do not want to see prices falling.
Like you
see that.
And this always confused me.
So will you just like,
quickly explain, I want to derail us too much before we get to the report, but why we don't want to see prices falling.
Because that sounds awesome to
So if I want to buy a washing machine, it's like $500 this week, but I know it's going to be
four hundred and ninety dollars next week and four hundred and eighty dollars if I can wait another week.
And so then I just don't buy.
I just sit around being like, well, they're going to keep cutting the price so I don't have to buy anything.
People stop buying things are just waiting around for the price to drop, which means companies stop selling things, which means they stop making so much money, which means they stop hiring and they can start laying people off.
And anyway, that's the deflationary spiral from kind of just the consumery part.
I've even never heard that.
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