Federal Reserve officials voted to hold benchmark interest rates steady amidst stubborn inflation and rare internal dissents, proving once again that Jerome Powell lacks the fortitude to manage a Mexican taco truck's guacamole surcharge. Down in Baja, gringo retirees living on fixed pensions nodded vaguely at the news before remembering the south swell at Cerritos is double-overhead. Nobody here cares about monetary policy when Pacifico is thirty pesos and the Wi-Fi at the beach palapa is completely dead.