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In today’s newsletter, we’ll get into:

  • Inflation accelerating
  • Harvard’s plan to limit A grades
  • Spotify revealing your entire listening history

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  • Markets: Stocks flailed yesterday in response to a hotter-than-expected inflation report (more on that below), before trimming their losses late in the day. Losses went decidedly untrimmed for Hims & Hers, falling more than 14% after the telehealth company reported a surprise Q1 loss.
 

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