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Don McLean has been listening for decades as people sing his classic American Pie on the last call or at karaoke — and praise his efforts. “I’ve heard whole bars blast this song when I was across the room,” McLean told The Associated Press from a tour bus bound for Des Moines, Iowa. “And they had so much fun singing it that I realized, ‘You don’t have to worry about how well you sing this song anymore. Even if it’s sung badly, people are very happy with it.'” Happiness may be an understatement. American Pie is considered a masterpiece, selected among the top five songs of the century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. Load McLean — and his single about “the day the music died” — is now the subject of a full-featured documentary, The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie, streaming on Paramount+. This is an essential spectacle for McLean fans or anyone who admires his sonic treasures. It also repr

Another record inflation reading against the backdrop of a tight labor market and rising food and goods prices will, despite the recent declines in oil and therefore gasoline prices, leave the Fed with no choice but to continue raising rates aggressively, even if it does. risk of pushing interest rates up. US economy into recession. In fact, the drop in oil prices – dropping below $100 a barrel on Tuesday for the first time since dropping briefly below that level in April – also reflects the view among traders in commodity markets that a recession and falling demand are imminent. . With inflation at an unprecedented rate and such a raw tool monetary policy, it is almost inevitable that [Fed] must induce a recession to try to control inflation. There are those, including the Fed, who believe that a two-year/10-year inversion, because of their imperfect record in predicting a recession, is less useful as a guide to the economy’s future than a three-month/10-year yield relationship, in