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What Halloween Candy Reveals About Inflation | Off the Clock
October 17, 2026 · 43 minWhy is inflation rising faster than your wages? It's a cost-push energy shock, not the good kind. Justin Wolfers and Bloomberg's Stacey Vanek Smith dig into the latest inflation report on Off the Clock, and the news isn't fun: prices are…
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Why Official Inflation Can Seem Too Low | The Professor Is In
October 16, 2026 · 29 minPrices rose 3.7% over the past year, core inflation is stuck around 2.6%, and your paycheck is buying less than it used to — yet it feels like everything costs way more than that. Economist Justin Wolfers sits down with producer Augusta…
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The Latest Inflation Report, Explained | Diving In
October 14, 2026 · 15 minThe latest inflation report just dropped, and Justin Wolfers digs into why it's worse than Wall Street expected. Headline inflation came in at an eye-popping 3.7% — well above the Fed's 2% target — and core inflation is stuck above 2.6%…
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The Hidden Force Dragging Down Consumer Sentiment | Diving In
October 12, 2026 · 20 minAmericans feel almost exactly as gloomy today as they did in 1980 — when inflation was near 14% and unemployment was close to 8%. Today those numbers are a fraction of that, yet consumer sentiment hit an all-time low. Justin Wolfers treats…
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The Nobel-Winning Insight That Made Spending Hard to Predict | Diving In
October 12, 2026 · 25 minWhy Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics — explained simply. This morning Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Justin Wolfers couldn't wait to explain what they…
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The G7’s 100 Million Barrel Announcement Changes Nothing | The Professor Is In
October 9, 2026 · 26 minJustin Wolfers takes apart a headline that circled the globe: the G7 announcing it will release 100 million barrels of oil it had already promised to release back in March 2026. On this episode of Diving In, producer Augusta Chapman brings…
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Trump's Red Diesel Order, Explained | Diving In
October 8, 2026 · 19 minJustin Wolfers digs into President Trump's new executive order letting truckers fill up with red diesel — the tax-free fuel normally reserved for farmers, construction crews, and miners — and deferring the 24.4-cent federal highway tax…
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This Oil Deal Sounds Huge. Until You Do the Math | Diving In
October 7, 2026 · 25 minTrump calls it a massive win: 100 million barrels of emergency oil and fuel released to bring diesel prices down. In this episode of Diving In, Justin Wolfers reads the G7 communique line by line and finds something much smaller — an…
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Why the Jobs Report Keeps Changing | The Professor Is In
October 5, 2026 · 23 minThe September jobs report landed weak, and the numbers for July and August got quietly revised downward. Economist Justin Wolfers takes your questions on what that actually means — and why a statistical agency that corrects itself is more…
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Trump Wants Cheap Money. Why Are Rates Going Up Anyway?
October 4, 2026 · 25 minWhat happens when a president wants lower interest rates—but the economy, inflation, and bond markets are all pushing the other way? In this episode of What Next with Mary Harris from Slate, Justin Wolfers explains why the latest fight…
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Why Workers Are Getting Less of What the Economy Produces | Off The Clock
October 3, 2026 · 46 minJustin Wolfers and Bloomberg columnist Stacey Vanek Smith slow down to unpack the one number that quietly shapes your paycheck: labor's share of income. For most of modern history, workers took home about two-thirds of the pie. Today it's…
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What September's Employment Numbers Really Say | Diving In
October 2, 2026 · 18 minThe September jobs report landed with a thud: just 29,000 jobs created, well short of the 80,000–90,000 forecasters expected, with July and August both revised down and unemployment ticking up to 4.2%. In this episode of Diving In, Justin…
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