The Fed looks likely to raise rates: Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data showing that consumer prices rose again last month (0.4 percent in October after a 0.6 rise the month prior).
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Per The New York Times, "overall prices were around 4 percent higher compared with the same time last year, up from 3.7 percent in September.
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Over the same period, core prices rose about 2.8 percent."
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It's been years of this pattern, over and over again; it adds up over time.
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"Energy prices overall were up 0.7 percent for the month after a 5.2 percent jump in September," adds the Times, and "gasoline prices rose just 1 percent, significantly slower than the 9.1 percent increase seen in the previous period.
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Electricity prices rose nearly 1 percent."
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Usually there's a way to slice a CPI report so that you have some kind of glimmer of good news. https://t.co/RZCxhShWtw
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) November 10, 2026
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The Federal Reserve is feeling the pressure to better tame inflation, and its meeting in December will be rather telling as to how aggressively it hopes to tackle this objective.
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For most of this year since the leadership shakeup—Kevin Warsh replaced Jerome Powell as chair back in May—the board has favored very gradual increases.
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"The latest inflation data reinforced the idea that price pressures remain sticky and elevated and are not just due to one-off shocks," Matthew Luzzetti, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, tells the Times.
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"Therefore, the Fed probably has more work to do and in order to balance the risks better, it makes sense to do that at a somewhat quicker pace than we were previously anticipating.
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People who retire…die?:
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"I'm looking for a job, if you have any ideas," Sen. John Cornyn (R–Texas), who will be replaced by Democrat James Talarico, told reporters yesterday.
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"People who retire die."
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"Cornyn remained confident he could have kept the Senate seat red had he been on the ballot," notes The Washington Post.
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"Cornyn lost in a bitter primary runoff to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who lost to Talarico by 12 percentage points.
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It's not clear what Cornyn, who is 74, is angling for.
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Massie's efforts failed: Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) had hoped to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as I covered yesterday.
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This attempt was defeated by a 211–204 vote, as legislators referred the impeachment articles to a committee for further study—a sneaky way of making sure they don't advance.
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"We put the question to Congress," Massie told reporters following his defeat.
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"What I found out tonight is they still haven't broken from the spell of Donald Trump.
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He still controls this conference."
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The NYC Hospitality Alliance's quarterly survey found that "61% of restaurant operators said they had or were considering raising menu prices, and 57% reported reducing or considering reducing employee hours or staffing levels," per Gothamist.
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"Almost half of operators surveyed, or 45%, identified labor costs as a leading business concern.
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Other major issues cited were inflation and tariffs, liability insurance and commercial rents, according to the survey.
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"An underperforming Anthropic IPO has to be a very prominent player in what will be a pretty massive correction in the market with respect to AI," Jack Selby, a managing partner at Peter Thiel's family office, told Bloomberg Television.
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It's a real business, but the business is still in its early innings, and the idea that it is a trillion-dollar business seems exceptionally far-fetched."
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- Possibly one of the worst ideas of all times: "A top Biden administration economic official is pitching Democrats on a low-down-payment proposal to bring millions of new homebuyers into the market, as incoming congressional leaders take stock of affordability measures that might help them notch early legislative wins.
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A new policy group chaired by former National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard is pushing for the creation of a Federal Housing Administration program to facilitate home purchases with as little as $1,000 down for first-time buyers who meet 'strong underwriting criteria,' according to a copy of the proposal reviewed by Bloomberg News."
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"Forty-nine percent of U.S. adults are in favor of the death penalty for convicted murderers, and 45% are opposed," reports Gallup in new polling data released yesterday.
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"While statistically similar to last year's 52%, the latest update marks the first time support has been below the majority level since 1971, when it was also at 49%.
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The last time support was lower than now was in 1966, when a record-low 42% favored the death penalty.
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- What does all the kid-tech get us, exactly?
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"Once we had that tool," a mom of four tells @sarahzhang (the writer of this excellent piece in The Atlantic) "it felt like we were irresponsible if we didn't use it.
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"A biography of Mario Vargas Llosa in Spanish has been abandoned after a publisher rejected its British author's account of the Nobel laureate's life as too critical," reports the Times.
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"The decision by Penguin Random House, revealed by the Spanish newspaper El País, ends a 13-year publishing arrangement for Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life, by Gerald Martin, an expert on Latin American literature whose previous biography of another literary giant, Gabriel García Márquez, was published by Penguin's Debate imprint in Spain in 2009."
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