BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-07-07 We

Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember:

First:

The curious thing about the graph below is this: some of the rapidly-growing prices categories—medical-care services, childcare and nursery school, food and beverages—are overwhelmingly personal and personal-care services that are still largely one-on-one and that we should have expected to roughly track wages; some (college textbooks) are the res…