Newsweek

How Interest Rates Could Change in 2026

The Federal Reserve’s final monetary move of 2026 gave markets a clearer but still-incomplete vision of where interest rates might be heading next year—a year likely marked by continued concerns over ...
CNN

The solution to America’s affordability problem might be broken, too

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...
Reuters

Fed signals pause on rate cuts as investors navigate data darkness and leadership change

NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - After three consecutive interest rate cuts, investors now confront an uncertain U.S. monetary policy outlook for the year ahead, clouded by persistent inflation, data gaps ...
The New York Times

Fed Cuts Rates Again, Is Divided Over Future Moves

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a third time this year, but officials were divided over their next move. Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chair, said “we haven’t made any decision about ...
The Hill

Federal Reserve cuts interest rates in divisive vote

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates Wednesday in an unusually narrow vote, underscoring the divides among bank officials over the effect rate cuts will have on inflation and employment. The Federal ...
Fast Company

Home insurance rates have gone up for 6 million people. How climate change and Trump are making the affordability crisis worse

If your home insurance rate has spiked lately, you’re not alone. And President Trump’s policies could make it even more expensive. Since 2021, at least 6 million policyholders across the country have ...
Seeking Alpha

The Most Important Rate Of Change

I see continued economic expansion into 2026, despite recent headwinds like tight monetary policy and government shutdowns. Upward revisions in S&P 500 earnings estimates for Q4 are highly unusual ...
AOL

Little change in home equity rates ahead of Fed decision

Home equity rates barely budged heading into the final Federal Reserve meeting of 2025. The $30,000 home equity line of credit was unchanged, holding at 7.81% for the fourth straight week, according ...
Washington Examiner

Climate change is not among top five global problems, Chris Wright says

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said climate change is far from being one of the biggest problems the world is facing. Wright’s remarks are the latest attempt from the Trump administration to downplay ...
CNN

Rates of high blood pressure in children have nearly doubled in 20 years

Global rates of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in childhood and adolescence have nearly doubled since 2000, putting more kids at risk for poor health later in life. “In 2000, about 3.4% of boys ...
Mother Jones

Food Allergy Rates Are Falling. That’s a Problem for RFK Jr.’s Aluminum Vaccine Theory.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last week, the New York Times reported a rare bright spot in public health: The ...