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The folks who want to rename landmarks currently named after Confederate generals and leaders are going about it all wrong — that is, if they really want to convince people to rename those landmarks. Most human beings, and particularly most Americans, are instinctively resistant to any message in the vein of, “That thing you’ve been …

The Mississippi legislature may have the votes necessary to change the state flag, which currently features the emblem of the Confederacy. “Supporters of a flag change worked through the night to secure the remaining votes necessary for a successful vote to change the state flag,” State Representative Robert Johnson III, a Democrat, told NBC on …

The Federal Reserve is making life a little harder for Jamie Dimon and his fellow big bankers until it gets more clarity on just how painful the coronavirus pandemic will be for the American economy. On Thursday, the Fed unleashed a series of restrictions on bank operations over the next few months, including a hard …

The Federal Reserve and four other regulatory agencies announced on Thursday that they have finalized a rule that will ease restrictions curtailing the ability of banks to make investments in such areas as hedge funds. The announcement of the easing of regulations know as the “Volcker Rule” gave an immediate boost to bank stocks because …

The federal debt numbers have become so absurdly large that almost no one but mathematicians really appreciates them. Even before our nationwide COVID-19 panic attack, we were heading for yet another trillion dollar deficit. Before the dust settled, 30 million Americans had filed for unemployment, those fortunate enough to have jobs were figuring out how …

BET founder Robert Johnson slammed those who topple Confederate and other statues across the US as “borderline anarchists” — and argued the act means “absolutely means nothing” to black Americans. Johnson, who recently called for the government to provide $14 trillion in reparations to the descendants of slavery, told FOX News Wednesday that the movement …

A major US pilots union said on Wednesday it has begun discussing with key lawmakers a plan for the government to purchase seats on each flight to prevent passengers from having to sit next to strangers. The idea, launched by the Allied Pilots Association, representing American Airlines’ 15,000 pilots, is aimed at easing a return …

There is no need to name names. The so-called conservatives who have been coddling mindless calls to destroy public art know who they are. So do the rest of us. These are the reasonable conservatives, the good ones, so ever careful not to be called racist. They had a compromise in mind because they always …

They’re begging her to please to take their men. A petition to replace every Confederate statue in Tennessee with sculptures of Dolly Parton has racked up over 14,000 signatures on Change.org. “Tennessee is littered with statues memorializing Confederate officers. History should not be forgotten, but we need not glamorize those who do not deserve our …

Systemic racism is choking the US economy by preventing all Americans from fully participating in it, top central bankers say. The heads of two regional Federal Reserve banks recently made economic arguments against racism amid both raging protests against police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately affected black people. The Fed chiefs contend …