The Triple Squeeze: Housing, Food, and Wages

Is the middle class being structurally eliminated? This episode examines three pressure points — housing as a wealth-stripping mechanism, food prices as a regressive tax, and decades of wage stagnation — and the political feedback loop that makes it worse. We trace how policy choices over forty years have hollowed out the stabilizers that defined middle-class life, and ask whether we're headed for a slow decline or a sudden phase transition.