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Economists now expect them to add 0.5 percentage point to year-over-year inflation as measured by the personal-consumption expenditures price index in the fourth quarter, down from 1 percentage point in April’s survey.

They spent more than $350 million to build their roster, not counting the enormous luxury tax bill that will increase their overall expenditures to over a half-billion dollars.

Economic data show growth in August’s personal consumption expenditures price index at close to 3%, and the unemployment rate rising by a tenth of a percentage point.

Stock market bulls can point to the productivity promise of artificial intelligence and the 19-fold investment jump since 2010 of the largest tech firms into research and development and capital expenditure.

Work out a monthly budget of your income and expenditures, including utilities, property taxes, home insurance, mortgage payments, groceries and gas, and stick to it.