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Fed Pauses Rates As Expat Buys Another $14 Smoothie Without Checking Balance

Federal Reserve officials voted to leave interest rates unchanged in the face of sticky inflation, causing immediate and profound apathy in Todos Santos. Local retiree Greg Miller furrowed his brow for three whole seconds before deciding to paddle out at Cerritos anyway. According to sources who overheard him at the juice bar, macroeconomics simply cannot compete with a shoulder-high left peeling off the point. The cost of living may be climbing globally, but the cost of a mediocre fish taco remains anchored at sixty pesos.

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