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

Fexingo

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 spre...

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

Episodes (167)

Yesterday Why the Fed Is Tempted to Repeat Its 1970s Mistake
Wednesday Why the Yield Curve Is Flashing 1970s Signals Again
Tuesday Why Fertilizer Prices Are Falling in a Stagflation Era

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

Aug 27, 2026
11½ minutes
5 MB

In late August 2026, the Fed faces a hard call: core PCE inflation at 3.3 percent, real GDP growth down to 1.5 percent, and a bond market that keeps hearing 1970s echoes. Lucas and Luna drill into one specific decision—whether the Fed's hawkish turn, led by Governor Hammack, is the right medicine or a repeat of the Volcker-overdose mistake. They walk through the 1970s playbook, the lessons of the 1981 recession, and why Bessent's Treasury General Account gambit could complicate the Fed's job. Listeners get a concrete framework for judging rate hikes in a stagflation era, with a nod to the data: co...

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

Why the Fed Is Tempted to Repeat Its 1970s Mistake

Fexingo

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