Segments From This Episode

• The TL;DR on today's CPI

  by David Brancaccio

  The news is inflation cooled further in the year through September. Still though, inflation, is up 2.4%. From August to September, that one month increase was a tad higher than expected. To discuss what to make of this, we’ll bring in Diane Swonk, the chief economist at the audit tax and advisory firm KPMG.

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• Universities sued for alleged financial aid price-fixing

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  A Cornell alum and Boston University student have sued some top universities for allegedly conspiring to increase the cost of college. It’s about calculating how much parents assets should count against financial aid if the parents are separated or divorced.

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• Why some central banks have been buying more gold

  by Henry Epp

  

  Global uncertainty is leading investors to beef up purchases of precious metals.

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