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Feb 2022
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Plus a look at the political debates around inflation. This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, and FTX US.  On today’s episode, NLW looks at the increasingly political discourse around inflation in the United States. The Right is claiming government overspending is to blame while the Left is pushing a new narrative of corporate price gouging. Whatever th ... Show More
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