2.5% Mortgages and $1 Gas Are Done. Will Markets—and Voters—Adjust? Feat. Justin Wolfers.

If you love What Next, join Slate Plus at https://slate.com/youtubeplus?utm_sou... to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Last week, data showed that retail sales jumped in August and business activity rose in September, at its fastest pace in five years. THIS week, we’re set to get a few more economic reports that are predicted to point to even more rate hikes in October—right before the November midterms. What would another hike do to the election? What are we learning from the hikes earlier this month? Guest: Wolfers Podcast production by Rob Gunther, Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort. Video production by Paige Osburn. Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD. Social: @maryharris on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/maryharris.b... Note: Captions are auto-generated by YouTube. Learn more: https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next Follow Slate on Social: Slate on Twitter -   / slate   Slate Podcasts on Twitter -   / slatepodcasts   Slate on Facebook:   / slate   Slate on Instagram:   / slate