Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist.

In New York, I'm John Fassman.

And in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Sixteen years ago, a scientific journal published a landmark paper on the causes of Alzheimer's

disease.

Recently, however, a neurologist analyzed images from that paper and found signs suggesting

its results may have been fabricated.

And it's just a cork of biology that women have a higher tendency toward obesity than

men do.

And global numbers show it.

But in one region, the difference between the two is noticeably larger.

Next up, though, after having been accused for months of failing to counter inflation,

America's Federal Reserve has been aggressively raising interest rates through the spring

and summer.

It did so again yesterday with a 3.25% rise as data for June showed inflation continues

to rise above expectations.

The central bank's chair, Jerome Powell, wants to engineer a soft landing for the economy.

We're trying not to make a mistake.

We do see that there are two-sided risks.

There would be the risk of doing too much and imposing more of a downturn on the economy

than was necessary.

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