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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the June 12th edition of Invest Talk I'm Steve Peasley and if you've been listening to this program which I know you have You already know that the people us at Invest Talk and KPP Financial are motivated

by a desire to help you become a better investor, a better money manager of your own funds.

And that's good for you and it's also good for us,

you know, because, you know, there's...

We all want to make more money.

We are all on the same path to try to do that. And so whether you're a

KPP client or still content to invest on your own and listen to

invest talk.

We'll welcome you to the program and will help you any way we can.

Now, for the past several weeks,

you've heard me talk about ever present possibility

that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates and they're

meeting right now and I'm pretty sure they're going to raise rates. A headline appeared today

that gives me more assurance that they're going to do that.

Headline read US inflation accelerates to six-year high eroding wages.

Well if you drill down to the story and look at some of the underlying data,

we're going to do that today on the show.

If you have, I'll have to repeat it for you, but that's what we're going to do. Look at all the facts about that. But first

let's get to one of our questions. The Invest Talk 24-hour list line never closes and here's a call that came in earlier at 888-99

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