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Earlier today, the Fed Reserve increased interest rates.

Of course, they had been promising to increase interest rates in June

and they delivered on that promise.

Although up until a few days ago,

the rate hiked it, everybody expected the Fed to deliver on

was going to be 50 basis points.

After all, the Fed had maintained that in both June and July,

50 basis points had already been decided.

It was a done deal and that's what the Fed was going to do.

Well, then a lot of people started to criticize the Fed

for boxing itself in to these 50 basis point rate hikes.

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