Trumps Vision For Higher Prices

For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers. Supported by THE EZRA KLEIN SHOW Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode with Matthew Yglesias. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Transcripts of our episodes are made available as soon as possible. They are not fully edited for grammar or spelling. transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] From New York Times Opinion, this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” The last few years have given Donald Trump one great gift — inflation. Prices have risen so high so fast that a thick film of nostalgia has settled over Trump’s presidency. People don’t seem to remember the chaos of his administration, the mismanagement, the exhaustion of it. What they remember is that the economy was pretty good, that eggs and milk and gas and cars and homes were cheaper, that interest rates were lower. I was walking in Park Slope in Br

For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers. Supported by THE EZRA KLEIN SHOW Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode with Matthew Yglesias. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Transcripts of our episodes are made available as soon as possible. They are not fully edited for grammar or spelling. transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] From New York Times Opinion, this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” The last few years have given Donald Trump one great gift