Hey guys, hope you're after a great start to your week. I have been receiving a lot of questions

about this Inflation Reduction Act that passed the Senate. And I just wanted to jump on real quick

because we're actually working through our coverage of this bill that passed through the Senate

this weekend, has a really catchy title, a lot of questions around it. And as I was looking at some of the coverage, I thought, you know, there's actually a lot to learn from here. And I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about what you're seeing and some of the questions that maybe we can be asking as well. So just to start off, let's just take a deep breath and pull way back from politics for a second.

We'll add the politics back in, but let's just take a step back from politics and talk a little

bit about inflation. We know that inflation matters because the higher the inflation, the less

our dollar buys us, which is something that we don't want. We want our dollar to buy us just the

right amount. We don't want it to buy it, buy us less, which is when

you're in a high inflationary period. It does. Now, we expect to have some inflation in the

economy. Most economists say around 2%. I expect to pay more for a gallon of milk than my mom paid

for a gallon of milk because the economy has evolved. America has become a bigger economy.

We've grown. So we do expect to see prices go up somewhat, but we don't want to see them in this sort of environment that we're in. And right now, our inflation reading shows inflation,

you know, four times that. So we're really in a high inflationary period. So one of the things to know about

inflation, though, is that there's debates at the very highest level about what causes inflation. Yeah,

we know a lot of different variables that could cause inflation. We know supply chain disruptions,

for example, and high demand can cause inflation. But there's a lot of different things that cause

inflation. And one of the things of different things that cause inflation.

And one of the things I don't think we talk about enough on the news is that even at the

smartest of the smart people that know all about economic theory can debate about what causes

inflation and what causes it to stay around. We're also in an economy that's constantly moving

and evolving. You know, we're all in our

little constellations, our little communities, and we're participating in the economy as part of a

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