Inflation Grades
Episode Date: June 30, 2026This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: Jason Furman joins the show this week for an economy...
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37 episodes transcribedThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: Jason Furman joins the show this week for an economy...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: the case for AI regulation and what it would look li...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: Andrew Sullivan joins us from Provincetown to assess...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: Matt Yglesias joins us to recap WelcomeFest and disc...
Listen to two conversations Josh, Ben and Megan had at WelcomeFest, the center-left organizing conference: one with San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins, a...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: Reihan Salam of the conservative Manhattan Institute...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comAs noted last week, we don’t have a regular episode this week,...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comOn this week's show: Why is Europe poor? Megan wrote about the...
On this week's show: Robinson Meyer, executive editor of the excellent Heatmap News, talks with us about why oil has not gotten even more expensive, i...
On this week's show: Gary Leff, author of the View From the Wing blog on the airline industry, joins us to discuss who killed Spirit Airlines — the ai...
On this week's show: Sean Trende joins us to discuss the continued devolvement of the gerrymandering wars. Sean is an election analyst for Real Clear...
On this week's show: We joined in the discourse about whether dog owners have gotten too big for their britches. (Dogs are sycophants, I say — at lea...
On this week's show: Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini joins to discuss the strength of Trump's multiracial populist coalition amid the Iran war. He...
On this week's show: Daniel Biss joins to discuss the changing way Democrats are relating to Israel. Daniel is the mayor of Evanston, Ill., and very l...
On this week's show: Marc Caputo, White House Correspondent for Axios, joins the podcast to help us understand how Trump and his advisers are deciding...
On this week's show Tyler Austin Harper joins to talk about his reporting on the Mellon Foundation and its role in pushing humanities academia in the...
On this week's show: congressional candidate Alex Bores — he’s a New York state representative and author of the controversial AI regulation law, the...
On this week's show: Mike Solana of Pirate Wires joins us to talk about Silicon Valley. He’s been talking with lots of billionaires who are taking ste...
On this week's show: Jesse Singal, co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast, joins us to discuss the shift toward more cautious thinking among (som...
On this week's show: The Bulwark's Tim Miller joins to discuss his recent trip to Minnesota, the apparent continuation of significant but less bombast...