Sharon Reich-Garson

No fresh updates on unemployment, inflation, or even GDP.

I checked in with reporter Howard Schneider, who covers the Federal Reserve,

to find out how hard it is to get a read on what's really going on.

Then without that data, what are you using to base your reporting on?

And today's recommended read takes us to Colombia.

The Navarro del Ruiz volcano erupted in 1985, and families are still fighting to find children missing from the chaos.

We'll drop a link to that story in the pod description.

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