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ee can make you immortal. That’s just common sense. So please join me in immortality if you like coffee. Well, today’s September 11th and we will remember the tragedy and the victims and the heroes, etc. But it makes me think that there’s some kind of a limit to how many days can be special. There are 365 days typically, and now we have September 11th is special and January 6th is special and of…

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in history, you want to stay away from the reserved days. Something in March would be good. There’s nothing in March. So if you’re going to do something that’s going to be world-changing and it’s going to mark a day, look for March. It’s sort of unspoiled territory there.

Well, we will talk about the debate of course. I’m just waiting for people to pile in here. The update on inflation has fallen to 2.5 percent, which is in line with expectations. So we got the core inflation is unchanged but they expected that. So that’s good, right? All the inflation’s over. Thank goodness. Here I thought my prices were higher than they used to be but no, no. Now I know that inflation is right back down to almost where you want it to be. Two would be better than two and a half but you know, pretty close.

Let’s see. What does that imply? Well, I would think that with this good inflation news the Fed will be lowering interest rates, the stock market will be up, and enthusiasm about the economy will be rising right around electio

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n day. Which should raise a little flag in your mind that says, “Huh, huh. The administration that’s in charge says the economy is extra good right before the election. I wonder if there’s any data they left out.” Well, according to Republican researcher Jackie Kitz (I think that’s at least somewhere close to the way she pronounces her name), since Harris took office gas is up 46 percent, electri…

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