MONEY & MARKETS
Nov 4, 2026
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Up 1.1% after the 1986 midterm. That is the floor. Every other year did better.
Oct 30, 2026
That's the actual arithmetic of keeping money in an average savings account right now.
Oct 26, 2026
The University of Michigan has been asking this question since 1952. This month's answer ranks near the very bottom.
Oct 22, 2026
You can outrun your tax bracket. You apparently cannot outrun your expenses.
Oct 20, 2026
Two of those ten names control more of your retirement than the bottom 200 stocks combined.
Oct 14, 2026
The Fed just raised rates to 4% last month and CPI is still running nearly double the target.
Oct 9, 2026
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Outside a brief window in late 2023, this spread had been closed since before the first iPhone existed.
Oct 7, 2026
It hit an all-time high of $5,589 in January. By October 5 it was at $4,139. That's 26% off the top.
Oct 1, 2026
That 16-point gap is not noise — and the index has been below the danger line every single month since February 2025.
Sep 28, 2026
The Fed just raised rates to 4% to bring that number down. The survey came back higher.
Sep 25, 2026
It briefly touched 5% in October 2023 and retreated fast. At 5.11%, it is holding.
Sep 22, 2026
It is written into the existing statute — the cut triggers the moment the reserves are gone.
Sep 15, 2026
That is more than double the damage of the entire 2016–2021 stretch, in roughly the same number of years.
Sep 10, 2026
That's a gap of more than $1.3 million — and the stock market just had one of its best stretches in recent memory.
Sep 7, 2026
That surprise sent rate-hike odds to 63% before markets closed Friday.
Sep 2, 2026
It has only been this stretched once in all that data. December 1999, right before the crash.
Aug 31, 2026
65 consecutive months above that target, and J.P. Morgan now expects rates to go higher next month.
Aug 24, 2026
Same dollar that bought it back then has lost nearly a quarter of its worth since.
Aug 21, 2026
The level it left tells you everything about this week.
Aug 12, 2026
Inflation matched Wall Street's forecast on the nose. The long bond stayed at 2007 levels anyway.
Aug 11, 2026
The reason it happened is the part that stings a little.
Jul 13, 2026
Last month the Trustees moved the deadline up yet again. The average retiree loses $458 a month the moment it happens.
Jul 10, 2026
Same level. Different Fed. Same warning.
Jul 8, 2026
The Great Recession peak was 13.7%. The gap between that low point and right now is shrinking fast.
Jul 2, 2026
If you held through the Q1 selloff, those 90 days handed you more than a typical full year of returns.
