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In the spring, economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal said they expected inflation to hit 3.6% by the end of this year.

Concern about foreigners dumping Treasuries was rampant in the spring, as was worry about U.S. debt losing its haven status.

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Today the press corps is so depleted, and so lacking in backbone, that no one has sprung forward to defend Date’s right to ask a legitimate question.

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Then the spring from where they drank was commandeered for the settlement’s use, even as the thousands of square miles open to his livestock shrank with every passing year.

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They’ve fallen 49% since then, but the catch is that the Halloween chocolates on store shelves now were likely made in the spring—“when the market was at considerably higher price levels,” Ganes said.

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