The research is a good and descriptive small-scale study, said Jon Vernick, an associate professor and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, but it also is a good reminder that public health experts need to do more of this kind of research.

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Whatever stance one might wish the Fed to take, a purely descriptive approach to the relationships examined in this study indicates that equity investors should be rooting for reinflation.

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