Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts questioning whether the Trump administration has any plan at all to meet the challenge of debt and deficits.
Then, David is joined by Vincent Smith, director of agricultural policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and professor emeritus of economics at Montana State University. Frum and Smith discuss the high price of groceries, Trump’s lack of a plan to address it, and whether any relief is coming to Americans.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology.”
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00:00 Cold Open
00:33 Introduction
01:34 A Doomed Economic Plan
03:18 Policies That Slow Growth
06:40 Vincent Smith
07:29 Why Food Feels Costly
10:34 Why We Notice Food
13:44 Beef Price Surge
15:09 Processors Not The Villain
23:15 Tariffs Raise Food Costs
27:51 Iran War Farm Impacts
31:53 Wheat And Ukraine War
37:35 How Grocery Pricing Works
43:59 Soybeans And China Retaliation
47:39 Edith Hamilton's Mythology,
On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts questioning whether the Trump administration has any plan at all to meet the challenge of debt and deficits.
Then, David is joined by Vincent Smith, director of agricultural policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and professor emeritus of economics at Montana State University. Frum and Smith discuss the high price of groceries, Trump’s lack of a plan to address it, and whether any relief is coming to Americans.
Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology.”
Sign up for David Frum’s newsletter alert to find out when a new story is published: theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/?follow=true&utm_campaign=frum-yt
Subscribe to “The David Frum Show” on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-frum-show/id1305908387
Subscribe to “The David Frum Show” on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/79CBHEDdEbdykveVgbpWs7
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#davidfrum #podcasts #theatlantic #economics #uspolitics #inflation
00:00 Cold Open
00:33 Introduction
01:34 A Doomed Economic Plan
03:18 Policies That Slow Growth
06:40 Vincent Smith
07:29 Why Food Feels Costly
10:34 Why We Notice Food
13:44 Beef Price Surge
15:09 Processors Not The Villain
23:15 Tariffs Raise Food Costs
27:51 Iran War Farm Impacts
31:53 Wheat And Ukraine War
37:35 How Grocery Pricing Works
43:59 Soybeans And China Retaliation
47:39 Edith Hamilton's Mythology,
