Sad that your column is ending! I daydream about all the awesome journalists and writers who have left or been fired from the Washington Post forming their own outlet, so I hope to see you there.

You can look at the experience of working families over the last two business cycles to see why focusing only on prices provides a distorted picture. Looking only at prices, you’d think working families were far poorer in 2024 than they were in 2019. 2/

I’m so glad it’s paywalled bc I provably would have read it otherwise