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Investors will also be looking forward to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s keynote address from the Jackson Hole, Wyo., economic-policy symposium on Friday, hoping to parse indications of the Fed’s strategy on interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
And so it was during the pandemic, until runaway inflation came and the Federal Reserve had to raise interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Her interest in Greenland sharks began after reading a 2016 research paper by John Fleng Steffensen published in the journal Science.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Sources have told BBC Sport Sarr has not trained for the last two days, complaining of a groin issue, amid interest from Turkish side Galatasaray.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Professor Brown and Professor Green, along with a handful of other people on the faculty who had taken a special interest in me, and then the list kind of sputtered to a stop.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Like a neighborhood bar or a bowling alley, the internet was a place you could reliably go to have fun and occasionally learn something from semi-strangers who shared your interests.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Botha says autistic people are united by key features: sensory sensitivity, a need for predictability, intense interests and struggles with communication.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
On a recent summer day, Leong stepped into a Volkswagen microbus that he had retrofitted with Tesla batteries, a side project that expanded his interests from software to hardware engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But she noted that Israel, which has created what it calls a security zone in southern Syria, has generally accepted Turkish interests in the north.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
After all,with Washington as president, Jefferson as secretary of state, Edmund Randolph as attorney general—he might have added Madison as dominant presence in the Congress—Virginia's interests were hardly unrepresented in the capital.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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"Styria is really a wonderful place to be. You have mountains, you have lakes, if you're interested in wine you can go wine tasting... The quality of life is very good," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
“We’re all very interested in what their next steps are,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
They weren’t really interested in doing anything that didn’t raise money.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
By 1943, autism was used to describe children with "fascinating peculiarities" who weren't interested in the world around them.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I’m not interested in buying anything,” he mumbled.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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And here’s where things get interesting: Bessent’s Treasury Department wants lower yields, but Fed Chairman Warsh thinks markets should help guide policy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
Internet users have proven they’ll make a habit of swinging by these fledgling new spaces — if the conversation is interesting enough.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Much like the “Bad Moms” movies, “Spa Weekend” isn’t insightful, isn’t interesting and isn’t funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“It’s an interesting business, and, on the whole, having a part-time job has been good for my writing,” she wrote in a letter to Morrison of Amazon’s early days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“All interesting people are strange, don’t you think?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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