![]() In December 2012, Steinberg was named Person of the Year on XWord Info, which recognizes "remarkable contributors to crosswords." This puzzle feature expanded into the Riverside County Press-Enterprise and the now-defunct Los Angeles Register associated newspapers. Two months later, he was made crossword editor of the Orange County Register 's 24 weekly associated newspapers. Steinberg directs the project, which was an outgrowth of a project he conducted for a science research course while a freshman in high school.Īn e-book with 25 crosswords by Steinberg, Chromatics, was published in September 2012. In June 2012, he founded the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, a collaborative effort to build a digitized, fully analyzable database of The New York Times crossword puzzles published before Will Shortz became editor. One of his puzzles was selected for Twenty Under Thirty, and another appeared in The American Red Crossword Book. Since then he has published nearly 500 puzzles in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, Orange County Register, Fireball Crosswords, Daily Celebrity Crossword, the American Values Club Crossword, BuzzFeed, 10-4 Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, and books. Steinberg's first crossword publication was in The New York Times on June 16, 2011. He attended Turtle Rock Elementary School in Irvine, California, the Lakeside School in Seattle, and Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. In middle school, he was introduced to The New York Times crossword puzzle by his parents and, after seeing Merl Reagle build a puzzle in the movie Wordplay, began constructing. On Thursday, Wall Street will get an update on retail sales for August.Steinberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in California and Washington. The Labor Department will release its report on consumer prices for August on Tuesday and a report on wholesale prices on Wednesday. The calendar for such updates will be busy next week. ![]() That has left investors closely watching economic data for any sign that inflation might be cooling. ![]() Fed officials, including Chair Jerome Powell, have all reaffirmed the central bank’s determination in raising rates until inflation is under control. The central bank has already raised rates four times this year and markets expect it to deliver another jumbo-sized increase of three-quarters of a percentage point at its next meeting in two weeks. ![]() Stocks spent July and part of August gaining ground on hopes that the Fed would ease up on its interest rate hikes, but slumped over the last few weeks as it became clear the central bank remained resolute in raising rates. ![]() The Fed has been the main focus for investors as they try to figure out whether the central bank’s plan to cool the hottest inflation in four decades will work or possibly trip an already slowing economy into a recession. The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to track expectations for actions by the Federal Reserve, rose to 3.57 percent from 3.51 percent. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences interest rates on mortgages and other loans, slipped to 3.31 from 3.33 percent late Thursday. ![]()
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