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Retail sales jumped and wholesale prices charged ahead in November.

Big deal.

Consumer prices didn’t move for the first time in more than four years, factory output showed a minuscule rise, and unsold goods of businesses posted the biggest gain in half a year.

Mixing and matching the data, those experts paid to pretend to know these things were predicting that Washington’s grownups, also known as Federal Reserve policymakers, will vote this coming Tuesday to lower short-term interest rates.