Just tell me what happened. You write this tweet that says that this is the actual truth. People read that tweet — “Yes.” — and they say, ”Elon Musk is an antisemite.“ That he is riling up this base. You’re hearing it from, as I said, the White House. You’re hearing it from Jewish groups all over. And I’m an American Jew. It wasn’t just the people who had that view. It was actually people who really are antisemites who said, ”Oh, my goodness — go, go, Elon, this is fabulous.“ And that actually was the thing that really, really set me back. And I said to myself, ”What’s going on here?“ And I want to know how you felt about that in that moment when you saw all of this happening. Yeah, well, first of all, I did clarify almost immediately what I meant. I would say that was, you know, if I could go back and say I should in retrospect, not have replied to that particular person and I should have written in greater length as to what I meant. I did subsequently clarify it in replies, but those clarifications were ignored by the media. And essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic too. And for that, I’m quite sorry — that is not, that was not my intention. But there’s a public perception that was part of a apology tour, if you will, that this had been said online. There was all of the criticism. There was advertisers leaving. We talked to Bob Iger. I hope they stop. ”You hope —“ Don’t advertise. ”You don’t want them to advertise?“ No. ”What do you mean?“ If someone’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money. Go [expletive] yourself.
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Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates for the First Time in Four Years
Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, said that the central bank would take future interest rate cuts “meeting by meeting” after lowering rates by a half percentage point, an unusually large move.
Today, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to reduce the degree of policy restraint by lowering our policy interest rate by a half percentage point. Our patient approach over the past year has paid dividends. Inflation is now much closer to our objective, and we have gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent. We’re going to take it meeting by meeting. As I mentioned, there’s no sense that the committee feels it’s in a rush to do this. We made a good, strong start to this, and that’s really, frankly, a sign of our confidence — confidence that inflation is coming down.