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There are things you wouldn’t usually buy, but you figure you’ll take the chance because of the cheap price and the hype—like meme stocks.

It is also used to calculate annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits, which are required to be published by Nov. 1, using third-quarter inflation figures.

Political figures didn’t want to just close every park outright, so they have kept many open with skeletal staffs and reduced services.

King Charles has been a key figure at previous climate summits, giving the opening address in Dubai for COP28, including the reminder: "The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth."

He’s figured out something the rest of Wall Street seems constitutionally incapable of grasping: that dividends are boring — which is precisely why they work.