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Why did inflation rise after the pandemic?

Here & Now host Scott Tong speaks with University of Iowa economics professor Anne Villamil about why inflation spiked over the past few years, what a president can do about it, whether wages are keeping up and whether prices come down when inflation does.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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