For most Americans, we have just experienced the greatest inflation period of our lives. And we recall each time we do shopping. Everywhere in Tiktok, tons of people posted videos of how they have little for … $ 20. $ 40. $ 100. The most overwhelming for us: a box of $ 8 of toast with cinnamon.
Food prices are almost 30% higher than they were five years ago. It’s bad. And these new higher prices do not disappear.
At the same time, prices no longer swell at a wild rate. Over the past two years, the inflation rate has slowed down. And yet, our fears or our feelings that things will become again out of control? They have not slowed down.
This discrepancy gave us all the…. feelings. Feelings of inflation. Infeelings.
During our last show: we are sorting through our inferentices. We are talking to economists who have studied us. We learn why our personal inflation calculators do not always correspond to those professional.
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