As the greatest inflation spike of the last 50 years occurs, the utter failure of economists, their models and many pundits to foresee what was coming is worth highlighting. Of course, the biggest malfunction in the story was that of the Federal Reserve itself, which had a clear mandate to keep prices stable, and seems…
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At the Ravens’ offseason planning meetings in the Bahamas last month, team officials talked about how they should spend and how they can spend more. This is one of the most important offseasons in franchise history. It also might be among their least flexible. “I think we’ll have enough salary cap room to do everything…
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An initiative passed narrowly by voters in 2020 to protect wildfire victims and seniors has opened the door to massive tax increases that threaten tenants and the roof over their heads. Proposition 19 removed important taxpayer protections from the state constitution that for 35 years guaranteed that parents or grandparents could transfer property to their…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Fairmont Prep’s girls basketball team continued to play the role of bracket-buster in the CIF Division 1 playoffs on Wednesday night. Center Siyanda Salter scored off an offensive rebound and putback with 1.6 seconds left in regulation to lift the host Huskies past…
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Southern California homebuying got off to a slow start in January with both prices and sales dipping. The pace of closed transactions cooled from December, according to DQNews data released Wednesday, Feb. 16. The median sales price in the six-county region also fell slightly to $687,000 from an all-time high of $695,000. Rising mortgage rates…
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Scores from the CIF-SS girls basketball playoff games Wednesday and the updated matchups and schedule for Saturday’s games. CIF-SS GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS OPEN DIVISION Wednesday Pool A Etiwanda 83, Rosary 35 Mater Dei 50, Windward 44 Pool B Sierra Canyon 81, Orangewood Academy 43 Corona Centennial 74, Bishop Montgomery 66 Saturday, 7 p.m. unless noted…
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Scores from the CIF-SS girls soccer playoff games Wednesday and the updated schedule for Saturday’s games. CIF-SS GIRLS SOCCER PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 Second round, Wednesday Corona Santiago 2, Brea Olinda 0 Etiwanda 3, Santa Margarita 0 Newport Harbor 3, Capistrano Valley 2 Villa Park 1, Claremont 0 Harvard-Westlake 2, Moorpark 0 Los Alamitos 1, Millikan…
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By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING — Canada’s Captain Clutch, Marie-Philip Poulin, delivered at the Olympics again. Poulin scored twice, including her third gold-medal clinching goal, and Canada reclaimed its place atop the women’s hockey world by capping its run through the Beijing Games with a 3-2 win over the defending champion United States…
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SAN CLEMENTE >> San Clemente goalkeeper Emily Sanchez had a standout performance to lead the Tritons to a win over Mater Dei in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 1 girls soccer playoffs Wednesday at San Clemente High. The two teams were tied at two goals apiece at the end of regulation and two…
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LA HABRA – Sonora’s girls basketball team played like what should be expected of a team that had not played in 13 days. The Raiders were offensively out of sync at times, sometimes even sloppy. Sonora mostly, though, played more than well enough to win. The Raiders defeated Downey 47-33 on Wednesday in the second…
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