How Today’s Inflation Problem Is a ‘Mirror Image’ of the 1980s




The Brian Lehrer Show show

Summary: <p>Neil Irwin, chief economic correspondent at Axios, discusses how Reagan era Fed chairman Paul Volcker reduced high inflation 40 years ago by jacking up interest rates and muddling through a recession. With an almost opposite economic landscape leading into 2022, current Fed chair Jerome Powell might need to pull off a tricky reverse of that strategy.</p>