September 2, 2021· 58 min

Omair Sharif Explains How Inflation Measures Really Work

Orality
Model
50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(2,510 words)
M:94%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,197 words)
M:28%
GuestOmair Sharif(7,342 words)
M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic29%
extremely, totally, certainly
Engagement78%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, like
Repetition100%
know (248x), like (108x), about (102x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But, Yeah...., But now, you know, fast forwar...
Sound Patterns70%
82 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases7%
at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging6%
probably, maybe, possibly
Passive Voice4%
been between, are premised, are based
Abstract Nouns11%
investment, inflation, deflation
Subordination8%
although, because, though
Sentence Length51%
Avg: 17.7 words/sentence
Word Complexity45%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style22%
912 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
probably, extremely, totally

Description

When people think about what inflation is, they might first think about some broad index like the CPI. What does the the CPI really tell us? And how is it constructed? And how much does its rise and fall relate to the state of the macro-economy? On this episode, we speak with Omair Sharif, a longtime veteran of both the buy and sell-side, who is now the founder and president of Inflation Insights. Omair knows inflation index construction better than anyone, and he walks us through what's happening right now, and how he thinks about forecasting where inflation will go. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.