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Weekly Market Commentary 2025.32
8/26/2025

Will the Fed lower rates?

Last week, in a much-anticipated speech, Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell said, “In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation…Nonetheless, with policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.”

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Waterfall crashing into log filled stream
Weekly Market Commentary 2025.31
8/19/2025

Was inflation higher, lower, or steady?

Perspective has a tremendous influence on how we perceive the world around us. If you saw any three-dimensional chalk drawings on sidewalks this summer, you understand how perspective affects understanding. When seen from one direction, a chalk drawing looks flat. When seen from another, a winged dragon surges from a hole in the pavement.

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A middle-aged couple holding hands while walking their bicycles along a wooded path.
Weekly Market Commentary 2025.30
8/5/2025

Fast as a snail.

In July, the weather in Norfolk, England, was perfectly rainy as Bilbo Sluggins won the World Snail Racing Championship with a time of two minutes and 11 seconds. Fans and competitors traveled from the United States, South Korea, and France for the competition. Some arrived with trained gastropods (Training might include a strict lettuce diet and daily workouts climbing vertical surfaces). Others relied on entrants hired from the area’s world-renowned snail stables. Bilbo’s winning pace was just shy of the two-minute record set in 1995, but it was a vast improvement over 2023’s winning time of 7 minutes and 24 seconds.

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