July 19, 2021· 37 min

Why Everyone's Experience Of Inflation Is So Different

Orality
Model
86%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,271 words)
M:93%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,185 words)
M:28%
GuestUlrike Malmendier(3,281 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic33%
amazing, very, huge
Engagement72%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, so
Repetition100%
inflation (93x), like (57x), your (45x)
Parallelism95%
And I'm Joe Wasenthal...., So, Joe, we're recording this ..., And we're sort of watching the...
Sound Patterns55%
35 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases9%
you know what, i mean, so to speak

Literate Indicators

Hedging13%
may, maybe, could
Passive Voice6%
was expected, was used, are convinced
Abstract Nouns23%
investment, community, business
Subordination14%
because, whereas, since
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.5 words/sentence
Word Complexity54%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style28%
458 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style99%
apply, vastly, supply

Description

Inflation is running hot these days. But, even when the official measures were considerably cooler, there were many people who were skeptical and insisted that inflation was running hot and rampant. It turns out, nobody really experiences inflation similarly, and one's own consumption and behavioral patterns will have a big impact on their outlook. On this episode, we speak with Berkeley professor Ulrike Malmendier, whose work has shown how one's behavior (where you shop) and history (what conditions were like earlier in your life) can inform views and perceptions of inflation for years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.