And so this is Friday and what have we learned?
Well, for starters, there’s a dire inflation problem and also, maybe, a way to fix it. Will we embrace that, or we will go on being confoundingly resistant to our best interests? Reader Finlay offers a concise assessment.

The rising cost of living, the rising cost of mortgages, crime, murder; all of them came together this week in the worst way to discourage, frustrate and dismay.