it s probably boing to hike in february. and keep it at a certain level until it strangles out some of the demand and some of these pricing pressures. we have a lot of pain ahead of us. brian, the federal reserve is meeting today and tomorrow to discuss what to do about interest rates. what do you think they are going to be looking at? that earlier question about eggs, there was a bird flu earlier in the year that affected the supply of eggs. that underscores how difficult it is for the federal reserve to try to tackle inflation because there s so much noise in this data. there s nuance to specific price categories and reasons why they are going up. but the federal reserve held steady when they began their interest rate hike march earlier in the year saying we need to make costs more expensive to slow this economy. starting to see impacts because of the inflation numbers coming down. keep in mind, we re very far away where the federal reserve wants us to be, which is why