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you've been slicing and dicing inflation.

We'll return to that here in a moment.

But we're thrilled to bring you right now, not on

Jobs Day, James Glassman of J.P. Morgan. Jim Glassman helping us out with

Bill Gross on every job day. We drag them in before Jackson.

Jim, I want to go to a chart that I think you first showed me.

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