Because inflation is on everyone’s minds and the media can’t seem to get this right, we dive even deeper into the inflation narrative to dispel both propaganda and myth. Surprise, surprise, the real story of inflation is wrapped up in corporate America’s rather impressive year. We’ll talk about how increasing rents, pain at the pump and higher consumer prices went back into the pockets of large corporations and Wall Street and explain why it only happened in America.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:25

Prologue: 00:01:23

Chapter 1: 00:07:21

Chapter 2: 00:15:30

Chapter 3: 00:19:20

Chapter 4: 00:27:37

Closing Thoughts: 00:39:52

Show Notes: 00:41:48

Book Love: 00:52:44

Outro: 00:53:43

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Resources

Reuters: Japan's inflation hovers around 2-year high, BOJ flags price pressure

Pew Research: As national eviction ban expires, a look at who rents and who owns in the U.S.

ProPublica: When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord

Rent.com: A monthly look at average rent price trends across the United States.

EIA: Short-Term Energy Outlook

Barron's: How Oil Could Hit $150. It’s Not Just About Russia.

Statista: Daily demand for crude oil worldwide from 2006 to 2020, with a forecast until 2026

CGT: Top 100 Consumer Goods Companies of 2021

Tyson: Annual SEC Report ‘21

Nestlé: Nestlé reports nine-month sales for 2021, raises full-year organic sales growth guidance

Procter & Gamble: Annual SEC Report ‘21

Book Love

Binyamin Appelbaum: The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Stephanie Kelton: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Pod Love

Pitchfork Economics: Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton)

UNFTR Episode Resources

Peak Oil.

Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation.

Labor Unions.

Modern Monetary Theory.

F*ck Milton Friedman.

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