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Yes, This Economy Is Confusing

Yes, This Economy Is Confusing

FromThe Assignment with Audie Cornish


Yes, This Economy Is Confusing

FromThe Assignment with Audie Cornish

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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Mar 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The past few weeks have been head spinning: U.S. job numbers? Solid... except for those layoffs in the tech sector. Inflation? Slowly dropping... but still high. Not to mention the bank failures...  
It all has made us wonder: Why was it so hard for economists to predict this? What will happen next? And what does it mean for folks caught in the middle of high inflation? Audie gets an assignment from a listener and asks economists Gary “Hoov” Hoover, Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, and Alfredo Romero, Associate Professor at North Carolina A&T University, to make this economy make sense.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Released:
Mar 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Fiery Twitter threads and endless news notifications never capture the full story. Each week on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish pulls listeners out of their digital echo chambers to hear from the people who live the headlines. From the sex work economy to the battle over what’s taught in classrooms, no topic is off the table. Listen to The Assignment every Thursday.