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

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© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. Economics
Episodes
  • The Quiet Crisis of Underfunded Pensions

    The Quiet Crisis of Underfunded Pensions
    Oct 22 2026
    With the Dow hitting fifty-two thousand and unemployment holding steady at four point two percent, the US economy looks robust on the surface. But beneath the headline numbers, a different story is emerging in the world of public sector retirement. Lucas and Luna explore how underfunded pension liabilities are quietly straining municipal budgets and state finances right now in October twenty twenty six. They look at the specific mechanics of defined benefit plans, the impact of lower bond yields on funding gaps, and why this slow-burn fiscal pressure could trigger local tax hikes or service cuts long before the next recession officially arrives. This is an economics deep dive into the hidden balance sheets that hold up modern government. #PensionFunding #PublicSectorFinance #MunicipalBonds #StagflationEconomics #GovernmentDebt #RetirementSecurity #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #EconomicAnalysis #FiscalPolicy #DefinedBenefitPlans #StateBudgets #BondYields #CostOfLiving #TaxPolicy #FinancialRisk #LucasAndLuna #EconTalk Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    11 mins
  • How UK Inflation Traps the Fed in a Tight Spot

    How UK Inflation Traps the Fed in a Tight Spot
    Oct 22 2026
    With UK inflation jumping to three point five percent and housing markets flashing warning signs, the Federal Reserve faces a complex geopolitical dilemma. Lucas and Luna explore how international price pressures constrain domestic monetary policy, forcing the central bank to weigh global supply shocks against local labor dynamics. This episode examines the specific mechanics of import-driven stagflation and why the S&P 500's recent stability masks underlying structural vulnerabilities in the October twenty twenty six economic landscape. #Stagflation #FederalReserve #UKInflation #MonetaryPolicy #EconomicHistory #GlobalMarkets #InterestRates #ImportedInflation #HousingMarket #ConsumerPrices #Macroeconomics #FinancialNews #BusinessPodcast #FexingoBusiness #LucasAndLuna #EconomicAnalysis #FedPolicy #October2026 Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    9 mins
  • The Fed's October Surprise and the Stagflation Trap

    The Fed's October Surprise and the Stagflation Trap
    Oct 20 2026
    With the U.S. budget deficit swelling to almost two trillion dollars and the Dow hitting new highs while tech stalls, Lucas and Luna dissect the market's confusing signals on October 20, 2026. They examine how Kevin Warsh’s potential stance at the FOMC could trigger a surprise rate hike despite softening real GDP growth of just 2.2 percent. The conversation explores whether this fiscal-monometary divergence is the final echo of 1970s stagflation or a unique structural shift in modern finance. #StagflationEchoes #FedPolicy2026 #KevinWarsh #USBudgetDeficit #RealGDPGrowth #InterestRateHikes #FOMCDecision #MarketVolatility #EconomicData #InflationExpectations #DowJonesHighs #TechSectorSlump #LucasAndLuna #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #EconomicsExplained #FinancialMarkets #MonetaryPolicy Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    12 mins
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