Behind the Story: Why we’re explaining inflation using a knitted red balloon

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Behind the Story: Why we’re explaining inflation using a knitted red balloon
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Economics editor Damian Paletta and designer Emily Wright discuss their visual approach to explaining inflation.

Emily Wright:

What did you feel you most wanted to show and explain about inflation? Sometimes inflation and interest rates can feel so abstract, but there are ways in which the government tries to control it — which you show with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as a blue bird trying to push down the balloon.We know we have a good story when it’s something that people are talking about on the weekends with your friends or family. Inflation is obviously one of those things that has broken through.

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