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TGIF: Temps Are Up, Stocks Are Down
Fireworks retail display at a Costco in Florida. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Plus: Suitcases of cash for the Prince of Wales; defunding the police for West Hollywood.
By Nellie Bowles
07.01.22 — TGIF
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→ Stock markets have had their worst six months since 1970: There are two sure-fire ways to ruin your day: fill up your gas tank or check your Vanguard account. We haven’t had a six-month fall like this for 50 years. And there’s one major cause: Inflation. 

California has a plan to fix the problem: The inflation that was caused by our government handing …

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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