All righty, hello and everyone welcome to it. It's the 14th day of August

2024 almost a halfway point. It is Wednesday it is the halfway point of the week and boy howdy what

a week it's shaping up to be or has already been depending on how you want to look at it you

want to look back you want to look forward there's just a lot of stuff going on I'm

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there and foul language the way the news is it frankly deserves to be spoken about to be honest with you

So yes, I appreciate every single one of you over there. Thank you so much all right let's get started There's a lot of stuff going on today of course we have a bunch of ground to cover but we've got the new

inflation data out there and inflation is still up.

Inflation, you know it's what I always say.

If you choose a unit of measure you control the world, you control the the world you can pick anything you want inflation is up

But they'll say it's down because it's down

Because it's down compared to where it was before but it's still up. It's headed in the right direction, but that

doesn't mean that things aren't getting worse still. It's just that things are

getting worse at a slower rate. Okay, the ship is sinking, great. But we managed to shove a couple of desks in the

giant hole in the side of the boat. So that's going to slow the flow of water into it. closed a couple of doors, great, so we're safe, no no, we're still

sinking, we're done for, but you get more time to be horrified at the prospect of a fiery or watery frozen grave.

Okay, I guess good.

I mean it's a little different in that to get to the point of getting rid of inflation

we have to go through this and you know it's not going to kill us it's just not going to be fun

whereas drowning in the ocean and freezing to death in the Atlantic because Kate

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