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I'm Chris Hill, joining me from the Great White North, Motley Fool Senior and Les Jim

Gilles. Thanks for being here. Thanks for inviting me, Chris.

The Consumer Price Index in November rose 0.1 percent compared to the month before, that

is lower than the 0.3 percent that economists were expecting.

And yes, Jim, it does feel crazy to celebrate inflation rising 7 percent year over year,

which is what this is year over year. That's pretty much what they're doing on Wall Street.

Across the board, most stocks in positive territory today, and I'm okay with that.

Oh, I'm absolutely okay with that. It's down a little bit. It looks like it came out

at the gate pretty hot this morning of the seven or eight hundred points, I think, on

the Dow. Now we're up only 200. I do appreciate the somewhat cynical grin that people celebrating

7 percent inflation does engender. But the one I like there is I have one of the articles

I was reading this morning that came from a noted financial network slash website.

The quote is prices rose less than expected. The latest side at the runaway inflation that

has been gripping the economy is beginning to loosen up and quote.

Vymar Germany would like a word. And Venezuela is online too, and Zimbabwe is online three.

With all due respect, I know it's been difficult for some folk. I know that it's been a lot

of headline enc wasted on inflation being the story of the last year.

But I think elevated inflation was somewhat expected given the amount of stimulus money

that was dropped into the economy from 2020 and 2021. And in no universe is 7 percent

or 9 percent or 10 percent whatever runaway inflation. It's the worst that we in North

America have seen in 40 years. That is absolutely true. But I don't remember a similar amount

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