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Crucial Levels!

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Tomorrow morning, an hour before the opening bell, we get the first post-election CPI report. The laughable projection is that inflation is meekly ambling along at 2.7% (which explains why every month my credit card bill is way into the quadruple digits), but it’ll be interesting to see if the government actually produces something closer to reality like, oh, say, 15%. Here’s what we’re supposed to believe:

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