Stagflation Conversations with Fexingo: High Inflation, Slow Growth, and 1970s Echoes

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In 'Stagflation Conversations with Fexingo,' Lucas and Luna examine the return of an economic condition many thought buried with the 1970s: high inflation paired with stagnant growth. Each episode grounds the conversation in current data from major economies—CPI prints, GDP revisions, unemployment figures, and central bank statements—then draws historical parallels to the oil shocks, wage-price spirals, and policy missteps of the post-Bretton Woods era. Lucas, with a fountain pen in hand, traces the arc of a Minsky moment or a Volcker-style rate hike; Luna cross-references today's supply chain disruptions and labor market tightness against the archived charts spread before them. They never settle for surface-level parallel—instead, they argue about whether modern financialization changes the stagflation playbook, why the Phillips curve seems to have gone flat, and what a 'soft landing' actually requires. The listener who tunes in is someone who reads the economic indicators themselves, who knows that the misery index is not a rhetorical device, and who wants a conversation that respects the complexity of the data rather than reducing it to a single headline. By the end of each episode, you'll have a clearer map of the trade-offs policymakers face—and a sharper sense of which historical analogies are useful and which are lazy. #Stagflation #Inflation #EconomicGrowth #FederalReserve #MonetaryPolicy #1970sEconomy #PhillipsCurve #MiseryIndex #SupplyChain #LaborMarket #CentralBanks #GDP #ConsumerPriceIndex #EconomicHistory #Macroeconomics #Business #FexingoBusiness #Economics Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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    How Stagflation Is Reshaping the US Labor Market's Hidden Divide

    In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a surprising divide in today's labor market: while the unemployment rate sits at 4.3%, long-term unemployment is surging and initial jobless claims just jumped to 225,000. Using fresh data from the May ADP report (122,000 private payrolls added, stronger than expected) and the latest JOLTS numbers (7.6 million openings, up from 6.9 million), they explore why some workers are thriving while others are stuck on the sidelines for months. Lucas argues that stagflation is creating a 'two-tier' workforce, where high inflation erodes real wages for the employed even as structural shifts—like the fading of pandemic-era service jobs—leave others permanently disconnected. Luna pushes back, asking whether the rise in long-term unemployment is really a demand problem or a skills mismatch. They reference the 1970s pattern where low growth and high prices coexisted with a 'jobless recovery' and discuss what today's data says about the Fed's next move. The conversation is grounded in the latest figures, including the April CPI at 332.4 and core PCE at 129.6, without veering into stale talking points. #Stagflation #LaborMarket #LongTermUnemployment #JoblessClaims #ADPPayrolls #JOLTS #USJobs #Inflation #Economy #FederalReserve #TwoTierLaborMarket #RealWages #SkillsMismatch #1970sEchoes #Economics #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #StagflationConversations Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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In 'Stagflation Conversations with Fexingo,' Lucas and Luna examine the return of an economic condition many thought buried with the 1970s: high inflation paired with stagnant growth. Each episode grounds the conversation in current data from major economies—CPI prints, GDP revisions, unemployment figures, and central bank statements—then draws historical parallels to the oil shocks, wage-price spirals, and policy missteps of the post-Bretton Woods era. Lucas, with a fountain pen in hand, traces the arc of a Minsky moment or a Volcker-style rate hike; Luna cross-references today's supply chain disruptions and labor market tightness against the archived charts spread before them. They never settle for surface-level parallel—instead, they argue about whether modern financialization changes the stagflation playbook, why the Phillips curve seems to have gone flat, and what a 'soft landing' actually requires. The listener who tunes in is someone who reads the economic indicators themselves, who knows that the misery index is not a rhetorical device, and who wants a conversation that respects the complexity of the data rather than reducing it to a single headline. By the end of each episode, you'll have a clearer map of the trade-offs policymakers face—and a sharper sense of which historical analogies are useful and which are lazy. #Stagflation #Inflation #EconomicGrowth #FederalReserve #MonetaryPolicy #1970sEconomy #PhillipsCurve #MiseryIndex #SupplyChain #LaborMarket #CentralBanks #GDP #ConsumerPriceIndex #EconomicHistory #Macroeconomics #Business #FexingoBusiness #Economics Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo