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Cato Weekly Podcast • November 26, 2025 

# Superabundance at Thanksgiving 

Is your Thanksgiving dinner more or less affordable this year? Human Progress’s Marian Tupy joins the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne to discuss the political battle over affordability, the long-term costs of high inflation, and how time-prices show most goods becoming more abundant over time. Plus, the pair discuss human progress developments and why they are both thankful for the USA.

#### Show Notes 

[![world globe and money](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-03/GettyImages-1056322744.jpg?itok=3zJmDxSR)](https://www.cato.org/commentary/tyler-cowen-correct-risks-affordability-politics) 

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### [Tyler Cowen Is Correct on the Risks of “Affordability Politics”](/commentary/tyler-cowen-correct-risks-affordability-politics) 

By [Ryan Bourne](https://www.cato.org/people/ryan-bourne) and [Nathan Miller](https://www.cato.org/people/nathan-miller) 

All roads in that frame lead to a War on Prices.

[![taxes-coins-uncle-sam.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2021-03/taxes-coins-uncle-sam.jpg?itok=czKw2C8B)](https://www.cato.org/commentary/politics-price-controls) 

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### [The Politics of Price Controls](/commentary/politics-price-controls) 

By [Ryan Bourne](https://www.cato.org/people/ryan-bourne) 

Naive assumptions in the Mahoney-Ramamurti op-ed.

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### [Thanksgiving Abundance in 2025](/blog/thanksgiving-abundance-2025) 

By [Jeremy Horpedahl](https://www.cato.org/people/jeremy-horpedahl) 

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to be grateful for the abundance that free markets and globalization provide us.

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##### [Ryan Bourne](/people/ryan-bourne)

R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics, Cato Institute

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##### [Marian L. Tupy](/people/marian-l-tupy)

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

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