Why Official Inflation Can Seem Too Low | The Professor Is In
Prices rose 3.7% over the past year, core inflation is stuck around 2.6%, and your paycheck is buying less than it used to — yet it feels like everything costs way more than that. Economist Justin Wol...
16 Loka 29min
The Latest Inflation Report, Explained | Diving In
The latest inflation report just dropped, and Justin Wolfers digs into why it's worse than Wall Street expected. Headline inflation came in at an eye-popping 3.7% — well above the Fed's 2% target — an...
14 Loka 15min
The Hidden Force Dragging Down Consumer Sentiment | Diving In
Americans feel almost exactly as gloomy today as they did in 1980 — when inflation was near 14% and unemployment was close to 8%. Today those numbers are a fraction of that, yet consumer sentiment hit...
12 Loka 19min
The Nobel-Winning Insight That Made Spending Hard to Predict | Diving In
Why Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics — explained simply. This morning Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Justin Wolfers c...
12 Loka 24min
The G7’s 100 Million Barrel Announcement Changes Nothing | The Professor Is In
Justin Wolfers takes apart a headline that circled the globe: the G7 announcing it will release 100 million barrels of oil it had already promised to release back in March 2026. On this episode of Div...
9 Loka 26min
Trump's Red Diesel Order, Explained | Diving In
Justin Wolfers digs into President Trump's new executive order letting truckers fill up with red diesel — the tax-free fuel normally reserved for farmers, construction crews, and miners — and deferrin...
8 Loka 19min
This Oil Deal Sounds Huge. Until You Do the Math | Diving In
Trump calls it a massive win: 100 million barrels of emergency oil and fuel released to bring diesel prices down. In this episode of Diving In, Justin Wolfers reads the G7 communique line by line and ...
7 Loka 25min
Why the Jobs Report Keeps Changing | The Professor Is In
The September jobs report landed weak, and the numbers for July and August got quietly revised downward. Economist Justin Wolfers takes your questions on what that actually means — and why a statistic...
5 Loka 23min
