Noon Business Lunch 10/30/26: Persistent inflation, holiday hiring, The Grace Network
Segment 1: Mark Hamrick, journalist, economic analyst, author of ‘The Hamrick Brief‘ on Substack, joins John to talk about the Fed policy decision earlier this week and what is likely to happen the rest of the year, his concern over transparency at the Fed, lingering questions about remote work, an update to his Hamrick American Prosperity Index, and people getting paid to mourn as a side hustle.
Segment 2: Dominick Reuter, senior retail reporter for Business Insider, joins John Williams to talk about retail’s holiday hiring push shaping up to be worse than last year’s…
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