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I’ve never seen my cat Myrtle fly commercial. That aside, time “flies” by, Tom Brady retired again, and here’s a trivia question for your friends and family: how many 747’s did Boeing produce before the last one rolled off the assembly line yesterday? Over 54 years, about two per month. (And did you catch that subtle word play?) Changing the scale, one would be hard-pressed to find the financial section of a newspaper in the last 54 months that didn’t mention the Federal Reserve or inflation (the Fed does not set the inflation rate, nor mortgage rates), and today we’ll have yet another announcement about the targeted range of Fed Funds. (It is the interest rate that banks charge each other to borrow or lend excess reserves overnight.) But wait! High inflation is a problem, but… Weak inflation could become a long-term challenge after high inflation ends, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says. Unlike in the 1970s and 1980s, this late ....