Inflation gauge increased 0.4% in February,
as expected and up 6% from a year ago
Posted By: NorthernDog, 3/14/2023 8:51:53 AM
Inflation rose in February but was in line with expectations, providing a key input into whether the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates. The consumer price index increased 0.4% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 6%, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. Both readings were exactly in line with Dow Jones estimates. (Snip) A decrease in energy costs helped keep the headline CPI reading in check. The sector fell 0.6% for the month, bringing the year-over-year increase down to 5.2%. Food prices rose 0.4% and 9.5% respectively. Shelter costs, which make up about one-third of the index’s
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in 2022, and these 10 vehicles are the
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San Francisco residents lined up at a city board meeting last night to share their full-throated support of a wide-eyed reparations plan that would award every black resident $5million, wipe their personal debt, guarantee $97,000 incomes for 250 years and $1 homes.
But no one at the emotional meeting - where residents burst into song and begged to be made 'whole' - asked how the struggling, debt-addled city might pay for it.
Reparations are being considered in various Democratic cities around America as a means of providing compensation to the descendants of enslaved African-Americans.
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Graham: ‘What Would Ronald Reagan Do
Right Now? He Would Start Shooting Russian
Planes Down’ 33 replies
Right Now? He Would Start Shooting Russian
Planes Down’ 33 replies
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So why did she delete this tweet?
Because we’re already a quarter of the way through 2023, and if the world can no longer be saved, if it’s too late to reverse climate change (which is a hoax), Greta and her fascist agenda are no longer relevant. After all, if it’s too late to save the world, we might as well party on, right?
Here’s what happened…
In June of 2018, the high school dropout tweeted a quote from an article predicting, “climate change [which is a hoax] will wipe out all of humanity
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Pentagon officials suggest alien mothership
in our solar system could send mini probes
to Earth 27 replies
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to Earth 27 replies
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CBS Cheers SF Reparations Proposal to
Give Black Residents $5 Million, Guaranteed Incomes 25 replies
Give Black Residents $5 Million, Guaranteed Incomes 25 replies
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On Instagram, James boasted that she is “proud” to host the four-hour long event.
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And it was signed, “From: Charlotte.”
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The New York Democrat received the maximum allowable individual contribution of $5,800 from former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker in June 2021, and Schumer’s campaign benefitted from a $2,700 contribution from the failed bank’s political action committee in 2015, FEC filings show.
A spokesperson for Schumer informed news outlets on Tuesday that all political donations linked to Silicon Valley Bank have been given to charity.M
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Don't celebrate too much. Buried in the article - food prices are up 9.5% and housing +8.1%.