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Friday Speedrun - 5/24/2024
Funny story to start. Last week I made the analogy of inflation as a maple seed, helicoptering slowly down to the ground… As a side hobby, I umpire Little League baseball in my town, and on Wednesday I was standing there waiting for the game to start and as I looked out across the middle of the field, I saw a maple seed spinning about six feet off the ground. My immediate thought was back to Friday Speedrun last week and I watched, waiting for the seed to spin down to the ground, just like US inflation. Weirdly, the seed caught a series of updrafts and floated slowly up, up, and away out of sight. Foreshadowing??? ... (full story)