A December blog post from the Richmond Fed helps explain why inflation continues to fuel angst among consumers even though ...
Some people expected a downturn in 2022 – and again in 2023 and 2024 – due to the Federal Reserve’s hawkish interest-rate ...
Inflation will remain above the Federal Reserve’s target, with President-elect Trump’s policies limiting production while ...
Roth tax cut on his desk and threatened veto. Congress buckled, but he still signed the first tax-rate cut of the coming ...
Some on Wall Street think the fight to stabilize prices isn’t over yet.
Financial writer analysis of December market performance, bond market trends, economic indicators, and Wall Street earnings ...
Inflation is coming down, growth is brisk, and the job market has remained surprisingly resilient. How long can this last?
The “Magnificent Seven” of tech stocks — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — have accounted for over ...
“It captures the idea of a bifurcated economy that provides financial comfort and prosperity for half (‘hemi-‘ meaning half) ...
Investors head into the new year believing the economy on a firm footing. That wasn’t the case at the start of 2024, when ...
The 19-year period of Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell has been especially harmful. Its interest rate actions ...
The year featured many familiar winners, such as Big Tech, which got even bigger as their stock prices kept growing. But it wasn’t just Apple, Nvidia and the like. Bitcoin, gold and other investments ...