There may be no hope to truly tame inflation. That's the subject of tonight’s Riff.
Stock market bulls continue to tout Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, but the latest Fed minutes out today throw cold water on that proposition. By the way, stocks don't need any extra juice from the Fed. The current rally is based on solid profits, which are always the mother's milk of stocks and the lifeblood of the economy.
But consumer prices have increased around 4.6% annually over the first third of the year and...