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The House holds Leon Black in contempt of Congress, and the deposition chair, as a matter of record, stays empty; the committee's own schedule lists it as "the deposition room" ◆ The Fed raises rates for the first time since 2023, and Warsh's 30-minute press conference is now the shortest on record, a fact the Fed, when asked, confirmed was "as intended" ◆ Cuba passes its free-market reforms into law the same week the lights go out again; the resident outside the hotel said the candles "work" and then said it again, slower ◆ A frozen rock four billion kilometers away just turned out to still be moving, and the team's status on the project is "the shape is cooperating," which, for a heart defined by its stillness, is a finding ◆ The Lions blow a 21-point lead, give back 24 of it, miss the kick at the horn, and still win in overtime; the team's official position on the final six minutes is "monitoring" ◆ An 8-pound burrito in Wichita Falls has defeated every person who has tried it and is, per the restaurant, still undefeated; the record stands at 13:26, set by a man the restaurant calls "Da Garbage Disposal" ◆ Supreme Court leaves the Post Office's mail-ballot rules blocked and the President calls the Court "a shell of their original selves," a phrase the justices have declined, so far, to diagnose ◆ Turkey's gold is in the drawer and the government is, quietly, worried; the woman interviewed said it has "outlived four presidents" and was "not leaving for a few interest points" ◆ The 10-year yield crossed 5 percent, a number we had not seen since before most of you were born, and the Fed, on this record, has now made the number a sentence ◆ Zay Flowers had 150 yards in the opener and a hamstring, and the Ravens' official position is "monitoring," which the team is, on this record, doing on a Thursday basis

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The Federal Reserve raised rates by a quarter point Wednesday, the first increase in more than three years, and the press conference that followed lasted about 30 minutes, which makes it the shortest on record. The Fed, when asked about the matter, said it had intended for it to be. Which is the more honest explanation for the length of the press conference?

"He spoke less because he had less to say" — because a quarter-point hike, in the specific, is a sentence, and a sentence is, in the specific, 30 minutes of nothing 41%
"He spoke less because the President was watching" — because the board, on this record, is "hostile," and the new chair, in the specific, is the kind of man who would shorten a press conference to spite the man who calls it that 35%
"He spoke less because he is testing us" — because 30 minutes is not a press conference, it is a question, and the question, in the specific, is whether we will sit through 29 more minutes of the same sentence and call it a meeting 24%

Poll results reflect the views of 1,846 readers, a number we chose because it is, in the specific, the number of seconds in a 30-minute press conference minus the number of seconds the Fed actually spent speaking, and because a significant portion of the respondents submitted their answer as the word "reviewing," which we are treating, for the purposes of this poll, as a vote.

"I have priced the ten-year at two, at three, at four. I have held it through a war and a holiday and a rumor that was, in the specific, a rumor. I held it at five yesterday. I held it at five today. The Fed raised rates, and I held it. The number does the rest. I do not. I hold."

— A fixed-income desk trader in New York, who has priced the ten-year for the better part of a career and asked that his firm not be named, because the firm, at five percent, is, in the specific, the benchmark