Inflation is coming in hot! Today’s consumer price index shows prices kept rising in March. Kai Ryssdal explains the one thing everybody should be doing right about now in addition to taking a deep breath! Plus, the rising cost of insurance — from homeowners coverage to life insurance — and what companies are doing to dump customers. Also, hear a whale talk to a scientist.
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Air conditioning and political dysfunction
What you need to know about ranked choice voting
Retail theft and capitalism today
Our 1,000th episode!
What happened to economic conservatism?
A new demographic reality is coming
How farmworkers were left behind
The jumbled world of college sports
Name that (economic) tune
Who should get overtime pay?
The plastic recycling hoax
The rise of homeownership sans insurance
Smash the patriarchy … and the pumpkins
A glitch in the consumer-driven recovery
Nvidia is riding the AI wave
Our driverless car future
The case to raise the inflation target
Turmoil in the television industry
The misunderstood Inflation Reduction Act
What Los Angeles can learn from Detroit about addressing homelessness
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