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I'm Chris Hill joining me today, Motley Fool's Senior Endless to Osso Charmond.

Thanks for being here.

Chris, thanks as always for having me.

So this is one of those days, isn't it?

This is one of those days with the market.

Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in August, month over month increase compared to July.

And that 0.1% increase, Asa, has sent stocks as a group straight down.

As you and I are speaking, the Dow Jones industrial average is down nearly 3%.

The S&P 500 is down 3% and the NASDAQ is down just more than 4%.

Where do you want to start?

This is all because the Fed is meeting next week, September 20th and 21st.

And the powers that be on Wall Street are expecting, not incorrectly.

They're expecting a third consecutive rate hike of 75 basis points.

Yes.

Chris, first of all, looks the power of small fractions, as you note, right?

If you look at the big picture, nothing much has changed since the hot readings of the

summer.

Just a marginal sequential bump, I mean, really small.

But this reminds me of an old dire straight sluric from the song Espresso Love.

At the end of this song, the narrator is talking to, in those days, I know what they call

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