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“Endure,” he wrote on X, in his usual cryptic fashion.

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In a recent interview with Politico External link, National Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett, another contender for Fed Chair, also argued that the Fed’s current process is too cryptic.

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In between shows in the late 1960s, he wrote 42 cryptic puzzles, one a week, as a favor to the founders of the just-launched New York magazine.

In a kind of trance, he delivers a cryptic message suggesting that Oedipus is not who he believes he is.

He peppered his conversation with cryptic references to how much money he made, for instance.

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