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I'm Jen Sanassi on today's show.

We got Will Foxley and David Morris.

David, you're kicking us off with some macro news.

Yeah, so welcome everybody.

It is Monday.

And probably the biggest thing that everybody everywhere in markets should be paying attention to this week

is the Fed is having an open markets committee and is expected to raise rates. And I strongly

encourage everybody who's interested to read this piece by our colleague, Omkar Godball,

who did a great rundown of all of the factors going into this meeting. Basically, we have an

interesting situation where there have been some signs of cooling inflation, but there's still a lot

of consensus that the Fed is going to do a 75 basis point or a three-quarter of a percentage point

hike, which is quite a bit. And Omkar highlights some interesting stuff about that sort of conflicting

set of trends or indicators. And obviously, rising interest rates have implications for crypto,

which is a speculative asset that could be hurt by rising rates on things like Federal Reserve

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