Wintrust Business Lunch 6/12/25: Benign inflation data, AI hiring impact, Chicago’s new marketing campaign

Segment 1: Jason Turner, Chief Investment Strategist for Wintrust Wealth Management, joins John to talk about the fairly benign inflation numbers released this week, corporate earnings continuing to be healthy, and if he believes it’s time to lower interest rates.

Segment 2: Bree Fowler, Senior Writer, CNET, joins John Williams to talk about Tesla “tentatively” set to begin providing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, later this month, and Disney and Universal suing popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney.

Segment 3: Aki Ito, Chief Correspondent at Business Insider, joins John to talk about new data that shows that companies are hiring less in roles that AI can do.

Segment 4: Lisa Nucci, Chief Marketing Officer, Choose Chicago, joins John to talk about the launch of Choose Chicago’s new marketing campaign for the city,’ Never Done. Never Outdone.’