Investors love a simple narrative, and economists are delighted to oblige. There’s just one slight problem: The obvious stories about the U.S. economy have been repeatedly wrong since the Covid ...

The image is one of five posters that staffers at Planet Money, NPR’s excellent global economics show, designed to give simple visual form to woolly financial ideas, from inflation and austerity ...

Investors love a simple narrative, and economists are delighted to oblige. There’s just one slight problem: The obvious stories about the U.S. economy have been repeatedly wrong since the Covid ...