About Stagflation Conversations with Fexingo: High Inflation, Slow Growth, and 1970s Echoes
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.
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Lucas and Luna dissect the 'quality trap' driving today's stagflationary pressures. With core CPI holding at 338.9 and real GDP growth slowing despite strong job numbers, they explore how companies are boosting margins by shrinking product sizes rather than raising prices outright. Using data from October 2026 labor markets and recent consumer price indices, the hosts analyze why this strategy fuels inflation without delivering growth, leaving workers with less value for their wages while the broader economy stagnates.
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6 Nov 2026
The Real Estate Trap Behind Modern Stagflation
With the S&P 500 dropping three percent and core CPI holding stubbornly above three hundred, we examine why housing costs are the anchor dragging down real GDP growth. We break down the disconnect between rising home prices and stagnant wage growth, asking if the rental market is finally breaking or just bending.
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5 Nov 2026
The Labor Hoarding Mirage in Modern Stagflation
With real GDP growth hitting three point four percent while core CPI sits at one hundred thirty point nine, the US economy is exhibiting a strange duality. Lucas and Luna dissect the phenomenon of labor hoarding, where companies retain excess staff despite slowing demand, effectively subsidizing their own inefficiency. Using September’s job openings data and recent payroll figures, they explore how this corporate behavior creates a hidden tax on consumers, fueling wage pressures without corresponding productivity gains. This structural rigidity suggests that inflation may remain stickier than markets expect, not because of energy shocks or supply chains, but because firms are choosing to keep people on the books rather than adapt. The conversation examines whether this trend signals resilience or a dangerous misallocation of capital in an era of stagnant real wages.
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