What the stock market’s post-Fed-meeting optimism may be getting wrong about the U.S. economy

The U.S. stock market just booked fresh record highs, despite economic challenges.

How to beat inflation over the next year in one investing move

Published: Dec. 8, 2025 at 8:15 a.m. ET Short-term interest rates are too high. They’ll still be…

This week’s Fed meeting will highlight the central bank’s challenge: Preventing a recession while tackling inflation

The Fed is widely expected to cut interest rates for the third meeting in a row…

Opinion: The Fed is running into a wall of its own making

Charlie Garcia is the founder of R360, a global community of individuals and families with a…

Everyone’s waiting for a rate cut. But the Fed has already made its big money move.

If another 2019-style liquidity crunch hits the economy, your money-market fund will be the first domino.

Opinion: As Fed hawks and doves battle over rate cuts, investors need to watch these critical clues

Published: Nov. 25, 2025 at 8:05 a.m. ET With the U.S. government now reopened, the flow of…

Thank heavens for Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The latest jobs shock shows he’s been right all along.

A Fed rate cut next month seemed doubtful. Here’s why it’s now likely to happen.

Despite dramatic differences among Fed officials, opinions are coalescing behind a third interest-rate cut in succession.

Fed minutes show ‘strongly differing views’ over whether to cut interest rates again in December

Fed officials noted last month elevated uncertainty about the U.S. economic outlook.

Why the Fed has less sway over the stock market than investors think

Published: Nov. 18, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. ET Investors are making too big a deal over whether…