Forget the 1970s — this market is drawing comparisons to the 1870s
The current high inflation environment is often compared to the 1970s. But perhaps a more apt comparison would be to the 1870s. According to Bank...
The Fed Gives Banks a Clean Bill of Health. The Stock Market Hasn’t.
The biggest commercial banks survived in the Federal Reserve’s nightmare hypothetical scenario of an economic collapse. A real-world test is coming. To be sure, if...
Sen. Warren warns Fed Chair Powell not to ‘drive this economy off a cliff’
The Federal Reserve should make sure that its rate increases do not push Americans into the unemployment lines, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat from...
‘The economy is going to collapse,’ says Wall Street veteran Novogratz. ‘We are going to go into a really fast recession.’
Veteran investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz doesn’t have a rosy outlook on the economy, which he described as headed for a substantial downturn, with...
Fed Rate Hikes Will End Sooner Than You Think. What That Means for Stocks.
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate increases can only last so long. The stock market...
U.S. inflation expected to keep running hot: Traders see 4 straight months of roughly 9% or higher CPI readings
Just a day after Federal Reserve policy makers delivered their biggest rate hike in 28 years, the U.S. inflation outlook continues to look dire in...
Gold prices end higher, bobbing between gains and losses after Fed decision
Gold prices settled higher on Wednesday to recoup some of the losses they suffered a day earlier, then seesawed between losses and gains after the...
Investors may be in for a rude surprise: History shows inflation can take years to return to normal even when the Fed hikes interest rates above 10%
History can be a powerful tool, particularly in a high-inflation environment like this one in which no suitable economic model seems to apply. Inflation —...
Biden plans to cancel $10,000 in student loans per borrower, announcement won’t come this weekend: report
President Joe Biden had planned to announce forgiveness for student loans as soon as this weekend as he gives a speech at the University of...
A ‘summer of pain’ for stocks? Nasdaq Composite could plunge 75% from peak, and S&P 500 skid 45% from top, warns Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd
The carnage playing out in the U.S. stock market is likely an amuse-bouche compared with the devastation on the menu for the bulls in the...