The Long-Term Consequences of the Two-Track Economy

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Noelle King: What are the longer-term consequences of this two-track economy? Haynes: It just puts in pretty sharp relief the inequality of it. She says like so much else in this post-pandemic economy, it's confusing. The Shining Forcehel V John You is a podcast produced by Miles Bryan and edited by Matthew Collette.

Inflation happens for a lot of reasons that can be hard for even economists to fully grasp. But — as we learned this spring in an episode we’re rerunning today — there’s also a more straightforward reason prices keep going up: greedy corporations are using inflation as an excuse to jack up prices.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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