It was certainly the longest month ever. I feel like it was like a thousand days long and it feels like it's potentially going to stretch into the into February, as you say, with with the shutdown. Hopefully, it's not going to last.But, you know, it's like deja vu all over again with when you know, when I saw the headlines yesterday that the jobs report is going to be postponed and the JOLTS data this morning is going to be just postponed again. So here we go again. Again, hopefully it won't last very long. ...

In 2016, this Japanese company issued a public apology. For the first time in 25 years, they were hiking the price of a popular ice cream by 10 yen, or about $0.06%. And they were deeply sorry.Now, in any other country, this might have been an overreaction, but in Japan. Inflation is just completely alien as a concept. For three decades, the country saw stagnant or even decreasing prices, which is why a 10 yen price-hike for an ice cream was such a big deal.But a huge slide in the yen is helping change that ...