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Global central banks are jacking up interest rates with no end in sight until high inflation is vanquished. The Federal Reserve is aggressively fighting inflation by lifting its benchmark interest rate five times so far this year. There isn’t.”Higher interest rates make life more expensive for anyone who borrows money. The higher rates ding home affordability but also might be holding back home sales. Higher interest rates make financing a car — when you can find one — even more expensive.
Even as Ukraine and Russia remain at war, thousands of Hasidic Jews plan to travel to the central Ukrainian city of Uman for an annual pilgrimage to visit the grave of an 18th-century rabbi over Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Sunday at sundown. “The experience, the path one travels in Uman, is so meaningful that one is willing to pay a great price,” said Abraham Rabinovitch, 34, a Jewish Israeli who arrived in the Ukrainian city on Thursday.
Hasidic Jews make an annual pilgrimage to Uman, a central Ukrainian city, during Rosh Hashanah. This year, thousands are traveling to Uman despite warnings not to, The New York Times reported. Earlier this month, the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel urged those intending to travel for the pilgrimage not to. The US also warned against traveling to Ukraine for any purpose, explicitly advising US citizens not to travel to Uman for the Jewish new year. Central Ukraine, The Times noted, is not currently as dangerous as cities in the east.
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] In the middle of West 69th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, behind some scaffolding and a green wooden wall, stand a few precarious inches of facade. A few years from now, this remnant will be grafted onto a mansion that may well cost $100 million by the time it’s finally finished. Manhattan has countless monuments to outrageous wealth, most recently and glaringly the $238 million penthouse that the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin just bought at 220 Central Park South. Lacking famous owners, a prestige address, a brand-name architect or coverage in tabloid real estate blotters, 48-50 West 69th Street has thus far been a study in inconspicuous consumption.
Persons: Potemkin, it’s, Rosh Hashana, Martin Luther, Ken Griffin Organizations: Park West, Columbus Locations: York, Manhattan
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