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Fed Hikes 75 Basis Points, Powell Says 75 or 50 Likely in July
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 75 basis points -- the biggest increase since 1994 -- and Chair Jerome Powell said officials could move by that much again next month or make a smaller half-point increase to get inflation under control.
Slammed by critics for not anticipating the fastest price gains in four decades and then for being too slow to respond to them, Powell and colleagues on Wednesday intensified their effort to cool prices by lifting the target range for the federal funds rate to 1.5% to 1.75%.
“I do not expect moves of this size to be common,” he said at a press conference in Washington after the decision, referring to the larger increase. “Either a 50 basis point or a 75 basis-point increase seems most likely at our next meeting. We will, however, make our decisions meeting by meeting.”
Fed Hikes 75 Basis Points; Powell Says 75 or 50 Likely in July
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 75 basis points -- the biggest increase since 1994 -- and Chair Jerome Powell signaled another big move next month, intensifying a fight to contain rampant inflation.
www.bloomberg.com 
Real estate brokers lay off agents amid ‘clear signals’ of a housing downturn
Redfin’s chief executive, announced a cut of about 8 percent of the company’s work force in an email to employees on Tuesday, citing sinking demand, which was 17 percent lower than expected last month. “Today’s layoff is the result of shortfalls in Redfin’s revenues, not in the people being let go,” Mr. Kelman said. Redfin employed about 6,500 people at the end of 2021.
Compass is eliminating 10 percent of its employees “due to the clear signals of slowing economic growth,” a spokesperson said in a statement. Compass employed about 4,800 people at the end of 2021.
Real estate brokers lay off agents amid ‘clear signals’ of a housing downturn.
Redfin and Compass are letting employees go, citing a drop in home sales and rising mortgage rates.
6ZEROS User Survey
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6ZEROS User Survey
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Kanye West Calls Out Adidas CEO For ‘Blatant Copying’ Of Yeezy Sandal Design
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He shared a photo of the sportswear company’s $55 Adilette 22 sandals that sold out instantly upon release in May, which bear a resemblance in colorway and general feel to Ye’s $70 Yeezy Slides, which are also produced by Adidas.
In his lengthy caption, Ye calls out Adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted.
He has a point. They’ve been ripping off his designs since he got there. I wonder if the CEO will call.
White LGBTQ Jewish Male says 'Slavery was so long ago… What good will reparations do now?'
FUCK LGBTQ NATION AND Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld for this condescending, dismissive, anti-Black racist, bullshit article below.
Alert: Insane Amounts of Neanderthal Babble, Irony, Cringe, MANIAcademia, Hypocrisy, Whitesplaining, Anti-Blackness, Faux Concern, Concern Trolling, and Extreme Liberal Racism Ahead.
Please get your Pepto Bismol and puke buckets ready. Because this shit is worse than rotten Scrotie McBoogerballs dipped in radioactive, giardia-infested, spicy santorum.
Slavery was so long ago… What good will reparations do now?
Gaps in wealth between black and white households show the impact of uninterrupted systemic inequality and discrimination beginning at the nation’s inception.Commentary by Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld Saturday, June 11, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC - OCT. 16, 2021: Activists demonstrate at White House demanding Pres. Biden sign an executive order to study reparations, and establish a commission for descendants of American slavery
California has long been on the cutting edge in promoting progressive issues and policies nationwide. This continued this week when the state released an historic interim report discussing its involvement in and perpetuation of discrimination against African Americans. The report has the potential of not only educating the public, but also in introducing an official apology and in making a case for financial restitution.
In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation creating a Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans to investigate California’s legacy of racial discrimination. On a citywide level, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first in the nation to make reparations available to black residents in 2021.
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The California Reparations Task Force released a 500-page interim document detailing the maltreatment suffered by descendants of enslaved people from colonial times to the present. Though the U.S. government abolished slavery more than 150 years ago, the establishment of a panoply of discriminatory laws, policies, and actions remained in all aspects of life against African Americans, from the judicial system, employment, and policing, to housing, education, and banking.
The Reparations Task Force included several policy initiatives for African Americans, including free health care, tuition free education in California’s colleges and universities, state-supported low interest mortgage loans, prison reform, and a cabinet-level secretary position to oversee African American Affairs.
California released its interim report during a time of a growing movement sweeping the nation to ban books and to severely limit classroom discussions on topics of race, gender, and sexuality, and in particular, the teaching of lessons dealing with some of the “hard” history of the country.
During the next year, the Reparations Task Force will craft an apology to African Americans, and it is due to create a reparations plan to compensate for harm that has been done and to prevent further harm.
The Reparations Task Force will release its final report in 2023.
Reparations
Let us first define and deconstruct the term “reparations,” rep·a·ra·tion (repəˈrāSH(ə)n). We can find the trajectory of the word’s development in late Middle English coming from Old French derived from late Latin reparatio(n-), or reparare, “to make ready again.”The root of the term “reparation” is “repair,” which implies that the concept or thing to “make ready again” initially came in good condition, that it was formerly intact. The noun “reparations” denotes making amends for wrongs or wounds inflicted by paying monetary or other kinds of offerings to injured or otherwise wronged parties.
In the current context, “reparations” means providing African Americans with just compensation for the atrocities inflicted upon their ancestors who were violently stolen by slavers from their native lands in Africa, chained, and packed tightly onto wooden ships for a tormenting and dangerous ocean voyage to the “Americas,” then dumped like inanimate cargo (for those who survived the passage) and sold into slavery.
All rights were stripped from them as were their native languages, cultures, and spiritual traditions. Slavers separated family members from one another, and for the remainder of their lives enslaved Africans were forced into manual labor in extremely harsh conditions.
The white supremacist establishment in most regions forbad them any kind of appropriate and adequate healthcare, housing, formalized education, or the possibility of attaining their freedom.
Contrary to Republican Senator Tim Scott’s rebuttal of President Biden’s address to Congress on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 when Scott argued: “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country,” Mr. Biden was on point when he acknowledged the long-standing and entrenched systemic racist injustices on which the United States is based.
But as we are discussing reparations today, we are not simply referring to the era of slavery from 1619 through the end of the Civil War. The legacy of slavery and the patriarchal Christian white supremacist racist foundation on which the U.S. is built – the “original sin” – has carried to the present day continuing to marginalize, disenfranchise, and oppress people of African descent in this country. Reparations, then, must address that long and brutal legacy up to the present moment.
Historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries, in his TED Talk, “We Must Confront the Painful Part of U.S. History” tells the story of his trip to the historic home of James Madison, a designer of the U.S. Constitution and the chief architect of the Bill of Rights.
At Madison’s famous home, Montpelier, situated on thousands of beautiful acres with the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance, Jeffries was honored with a private tour of the mansion. Upon entering Madison’s library, Jeffries was overtaken by the realization that it was here that Madison crafted the immortal words of the great Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of our Constitution.
Breaking his reverie, however, the tour guide then took Jeffries to the building’s cellar in which the guide asked him to gently run his hand over the bricks holding up the walls. He felt and saw ridges and impressions on the bricks that looked to him like tiny handprints. The guide told him that those impressions were of the little hands of the enslaved children “who were never compensated for the bricks they made.”
This legacy of slavery has been handed down through the 400+ years after the institution was introduced on these shores. For example, researchers William Darity and Kirsten Mullen, in their 2020 Brookings Institute report “Black Reparations and the Racial Wealth Gap” found that,
Jeff Hardy ARRESTED FOR DUI
He can’t stay out his own way.
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1:53 PM PT -- According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Hardy had a BAC of .294 following his arrest early Monday morning.
In police documents, obtained by TMZ Sports, officers say they pulled over Hardy after claiming he was driving a white Dodge Charger erratically on Volusia County highways.
In the documents, police say they received four separate calls regarding the Charger's "poor driving pattern." Cops say when they finally caught up to the vehicle, it was "traveling significantly under the speed limit, weaving across travel lanes, and running off the shoulder of the roadway."
Cops say during the stop, the 44-year-old wrestler "appeared to be in a stupor and confused."
Officers say when they finally got Hardy out of his vehicle, he reeked of booze, and, during field sobriety tests, displayed multiple signs of being impaired.
They arrested him on the scene, and say when they took him back to the station, two of his breath samples yielded BAC readings of .294 and .291. The legal limit in Florida is .08.
Cops also noted in the docs Hardy's license was suspended following his two previous convictions for driving under the influence. They also noted he "had a driving restriction which required him to have an interlock device in his vehicle," which they said his Charger did not have.
Jeff Hardy Arrested For DUI, Cops Say AEW Star Had .294 BAC
According to Florida Highway Patrol documents, obtained by TMZ Sports, Jeff Hardy had a BAC of .294 following his arrest early Monday morning.
www.tmz.com 
The Cost of Immigration and Immigrants
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Because of all of the money printing the gov. Is doing it is dragging down and causing the dollar to crash. If the money that is being printed and given to !mmigrants continues everything will collapse sooner. Trying to hurt FBA and hurting everybody else. 
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