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The Department of Justice has informed lawmakers that the missing texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have been recovered, according to CNN's David Wright.
Why it matters: The lost texts from the five-month span of December 2016 and May 2017 have fueled speculation and conspiracy theories among conservatives about the objectivity of the Russia investigation. (Go deeper: FBI agent texts & #ReleaseTheMemo)
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The prime example of something highly improbable that became conventional wisdom: The idea that both interest rates and inflation will remain near zero for well over a decade.
Why it matters: As Axios' Dan Primack writes, private equity firms (the polite rebranding of "leveraged buyouts") have historically bought companies and loaded them up with debt.
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Our febrile world is not normal.
The big picture: The precautions that we're taking against the spread of COVD-19; the way in which the president of the U.S. delights in violating political norms; the fires, hurricanes and other signs that catastrophic global warming has arrived; the virulent spread of the QAnon conspiracy theory — all of these things, and many more, represent a stunning break with the world as we knew it.
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