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The big picture, minus the econ lecture. Interest rates, jobs, inflation, housing, and trade — the forces that decide what your paycheck buys and what your mortgage costs, translated out of Fed-speak.
A Fifth Circuit ruling on one appliance rule turns on a mandatory off-switch DOE never pulled: one of nine standards set the same way, with DOE's own reasoning laid out across two documents.
The bulletin that lets insurers recoup a FAIR Plan assessment from their own policyholders sets no ceiling above one billion dollars, unlike the three other California safety nets it says it resembles.
BLS's own revision record shows the routine gap between a first print and a final number is now bigger than the average month it is trying to measure.
BLS's own relative-importance table shows owners' equivalent rent outweighs food, gasoline and new vehicles combined in the CPI-U. The homeowner survey behind it sets only the weight, never the price.
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