今天清晨7:30，2026阿尔山马拉松在内蒙古阿尔山圣泉广场鸣枪起跑，6000名跑者踏着草原清风冲出起点。 "It’s pretty clear that no one on either side of the aisle think the name-switch to 'Inflation Reduction Act' has anything to do with the idea that the legislation is designed to reduce inflation," explained Michael R. Englund, principal director and chief economist for Action Economics.,"I think US politicians are increasingly resigned to the view that neither side is able to change public opinion, so the goal is simply to push through their agendas and raise funds for elections. The title change made Manchin’s vote a smidgeon easier, and maybe that tipped the scales.",The newly signed law levies a 15% minimum tax on large corporations and offers tax credits and discounts on everything from electric cars to solar energy. It also looks to cap out-of-pocket drug costs and reduce the federal deficit by $305 billion over roughly the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). However, despite its name, it does not offer an immediate curb on inflation which still stays at a 40-year high in the US.,When asked by Fox News reporter Hillary Vaughn whether the bill will immediately have an impact on galloping prices, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin responded, "Well, immediately it’s not. We've never [said] anything would happen immediately, like turn the switch on and off.",Americas‘Addicted to Spending Your Money’: US Republican Slams Democrats Over Inflation Reduction ActYesterday, 15:26 GMT,The bill was passed by the Senate on August 7 in a party-line vote using budget reconciliation, which allowed the Dems to ram the legislation through the upper chamber with a simple majority rather than needing to meet a 60-vote threshold. None of GOP lawmakers voted for the bill and remain highly skeptical about it.,"It does nothing to bring the economy out of stagnation and recession, but rather, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 gives us higher taxes, more spending, higher prices and an army of IRS agents,” said Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, as quoted by National Review.,The media outlet further cites an independent analysis performed by the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School which stated that despite its name, the bill’s impact on inflation is "expected to be statistically indistinguishable from zero.",Furthermore, GOP lawmakers have repeatedly warned that the Biden administration's spending spree may further facilitate already soaring inflation. Meanwhile, the latest $739 billion measure comes after the passage of the Democratic Party's $1.9 trillion spending bill in March 2021 and a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in November 2021.,"Raising taxes and spending is doing the exact opposite of how to truly curb price inflation," said Tom Luongo, a financial and political commentator. "All they did was mandate a bunch of price controls (on drugs, for example) which will ultimately create shortages for things with inelastic demand, further exasperating existent cost-push inflation pressures. Price floors and price ceilings create shortages. The net effect will be higher prices. With the government now more openly subsidizing specific sectors of the economy, they will ensure an increase in demand while capping the supply.",GOP Lawmakers Blast Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’, Say It Will Make Inflation Worse7 August, 19:05 GMT,Dems Need the Law to Campaign in Midterm Elections,According to the observers, the bill's major purpose is to reinvigorate the Democratic Party's base ahead of the November midterm election and stop Joe Biden's approval rating slide. A Politico-Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday indicated that the US president's approval rating ticked up 3 percentage points after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. At the same time, the number of registered voters who disapproved of Biden's job performance dropped from 59% to 56%.,"[The law] will give the Democrats something to campaign on," said Luongo. "They can now point to this act and say, 'See! We care about your drug prices but pay no attention to the insane rise in price of food, rent, gas and taxes… or those 87,000 armed IRS agents now being trained to take your couch money'.",However, "the net impact of the bill is that it may modestly boost Democrat turnout in November, and it may modestly boost Democratic fundraising," projected Englund, adding that "this comes at the risk of some modest boost for Republican turnout and fundraising that negates the benefit.","I’m not sure that, overall, the legislation is impactful enough to ultimately change the likely November electoral outcome," the economist said.,Still, there is more to the Inflation Reduction Act than meets the eye, according to Luongo: the financial commentator believes that "in the long run, this bill is a poison pill.","[The law] is designed to ensure inflation returns with a vengeance while the GOP is in power so that they can campaign on that in 2024. Honestly, it’s just so tiresome," Luongo concluded.。而最引人注目的两个国内精英选手，何杰、李芷萱，也参加了此次比赛。当国内绝大多数精英选手扎堆北上广深等一线城市热门赛事时，何杰和李芷萱却选择了这场仅有6000人规模的C类小众赛事。结果毫无悬念：两人双双夺冠。
B | 何杰成绩为：2小时20分01秒；李芷萱成绩为：2小时42分20秒（成绩为直播估算成绩，最终以官方成绩为准。）以赛代练何杰和李芷萱的夺冠，都在跑友的意料之中。作为中国马拉松顶尖选手，他们在阿尔山的赛道上几乎没有遇到真正意义上的对手。何杰、李芷萱42.195公里的全程赛道，几乎看不到竞争对手，一直专注于自己的节奏。
C | 阿尔山地处大兴安岭腹地，平均海拔超过1000米，对于长距离项目而言，这是绝佳的训练场。草原、森林、湿地、林海……多变的地形和起伏的海拔，对选手的也是一种考验。何杰、李芷萱选择在这里参赛，与其说是争冠，不如说是一场精心策划的“训练”——在相对轻松的比赛环境中，检验夏训成果，打磨比赛节奏，为下半年更重要的赛事储备体能。为什么是阿尔山？为什么两位顶级选手，放着奖金更高、曝光更大的大城市赛事不跑，偏偏选中了这场C类小众赛？阿尔山的赛道，北纬47°，大兴安岭腹地，夏季均温不到20℃。当全国大多数城市被高温裹挟时，阿尔山却拥有最清凉的奔跑环境。没有酷暑炙烤，只有林海清风；没有城市喧嚣，只有草原风光。对于需要高质量训练的精英选手来说，这样的环境远比城市柏油马路更具价值。更重要的是，在全马2000人的赛道上，意味着更少的干扰、何杰和李芷萱可以完全按照自己的节奏跑。热爱不分赛场大小何杰、李芷萱的夺冠，看似意料之中，实则意味深长。真正的强者，从不拘泥于赛场大小；极致的坚持，从不畏惧路途远近。当越来越多的人涌入马拉松赛道，当流量和热度成为衡量赛事成功的标准，何杰和李芷萱用行动给出了另一种答案：回归奔跑的本质，在最适合自己的赛道上，跑出最好的自己。亲爱的跑友，您说呢？欢迎大家留言参与讨论。
