The Obama administration dumped 300 million barrels of oil in the course of a part of the year. The president's response to run-ups and gas prices was to slash interest rates and spend, he says. "I don't remember a time in my life in the United States where it was this tremendously difficult sometimes to get things" Paul Krugman wrote that Democrats have saved the economy by putting downward pressure on inflation.
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Stagflation. Fuel Prices. Shortages. Political Turmoil. War in Europe. Roe V. Wade. Crypto Collapse. Counter-counter culture. Most years have one or two seminal, defining events that set the societal zeitgeist, but in 2022 so many events vied for attention that most people had to take time not only to revaluate what it means for the future, but also simply how to filter out the signal from the noise. Tonight we dive into the year, starting with the Ukrainian conflict, and ending with what might be emerging as an escalating one in Mexico, but in between cover the economic and cultural shakeups that continue to leave shockwaves into 2023.
