Stephanie Roth
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365 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Yet the reality is the economy is actually pretty good.
Income growth is solid.
Payrolls are pretty good.
So the combination of those things mean people can continue to spend even though the price levels are high.
So they can technically...
Not everybody, of course, because there is this bottom of the consumer that got left out.
But the bulk of the consumer base, middle to upper income people can largely afford most things.
They just don't like the level of prices.
So that's why spending has been solid, even though things are notably more expensive than they were before the pandemic.
But at the same time, wage inflation has largely kept up with most things outside of inflation.
housing-related purchases and autos, things that are really interest rate sensitive.
Other than that, the bulk of the sort of CPI basket or the goods that people buy on a day-to-day basis have largely kept up with how much wages have picked up since then.
It's just people don't like the prices that they see at stores.
I'm closer to the believer in the data.
I think they do the best job of most of the data out there in terms of capturing inflation, employment, recognizing it's not perfect.
Sometimes people will make these sort of political arguments against the data.
I think there's very little of that.
I don't think it's politicized.
I just think that it is difficult to fully capture the breadth of the U.S.
economy, especially in an environment where patterns have changed over the past couple of years.
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