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For decades, U.S. monthly nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate and average hourly earnings have been the Fed’s main measures of labor-market slack, wage pressure and the risk of inflation.

This transition period, known as perimenopause, lasts seven to nine years on average, often coinciding with women reaching the highest ranks of their careers.

It produces radio pulses every 14 minutes, just like the average human heart, beating 60 times per minute.

This is thought to be an event that only occurs every few years, when above average rainfall soaks the desert floor, causing dormant seeds to spring to life.

Economists and other experts have long repeated the conventional wisdom that the stock market isn’t the economy, meaning that temporary pullbacks on Wall Street don’t always ripple as far as the average American’s pocketbook.