Lords of Finance provides an event-driven historical account of the run-up to 1929, but Sorkin’s book is a character-driven ...

In the aftermath of the post-coronavirus pandemic inflation surge, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised interest rates 11 times in the span of about a year and a half, bringing the federal ...

Jack Caporal is the Research Director for The Motley Fool and Motley Fool Money and has worked full-time for the company since 2021. Jack leads efforts to identify and analyze trends shaping investing ...

Certificates of deposits (CDs) continue to be worth considering as a component of your savings strategy in 2025. Yields on competitive CDs increased to historic highs in recent years, thanks to the ...

In the past 40 years, certificate of deposit (CD) rates have ranged from 0.01% up to 18%. Here’s a look at historical CD rates from 1965 to 2024 to see how they’ve changed and whether now is a good ...

Learn about legal interest rates and their limits, how different states enforce laws, and what excessive rates—usury—mean for borrowers and lenders.

The Federal Reserve’s most important monetary policy tool is the Fed Funds Interest Rate target. By raising or lowering this benchmark, the Fed hopes to influence the cost of credit throughout the ...

It’s clear that business contingency planning should focus on the downside risk of recession rather than the upside from falling interest rates. This conclusion is driven by studying two sectors of ...

Interest rates have been trending downward, with the Federal Reserve implementing its first cut of 2024 in September. Analysts predict more cuts could follow in the final months of this year and into ...

Anticipation over a Federal Reserve interest rate cut, which was barely registering a few weeks ago, is now growing to a fever pitch. Following an unemployment report that showed the rate increasing ...