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The current economic uncertainty, high interest rate and inflationary environment create a case for gold to be in investors’ portfolios.

The current Fed may be remembered not for taming inflation, or even letting it out of the bag. It may have its own ignominious special place in history.

03.04.2023 - Before 1965, US inflation was stable for years, hovering around or below 2%. But President Lyndon Johnson then began implementing big increases in spending, as part of both the war on poverty

Mohamed El-Erain thinks the US Fed's miltiplying failures have done serious damage to its reputation and effectiveness

"My worry is that it may end up being remembered in a category of its own, as the Fed that undermined its own credibility," Mohamed El-Erian said.

Party-poopers point to the risk of a Fed pivot turning out to be more of a plateau before more rate rises

CAMBRIDGE – Reacting to Silicon Valley Bank’s sudden collapse, André Esteves, a senior Brazilian banking executive,...

Angel investor Tatiana Koffman discusses decades of Federal Reserve monetary policy, and why billionaire Paul Tudor Jones once predicted that bitcoin would become a workable inflation hedge.

The crisis in the banking industry has sent stock markets around the world into gyrations. What caused all of this? Is this a passing crisis? What impact will it have on the real economy? Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts.

PRINCETON — George Santayana famously observed that, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But allow me to offer a corollary: Those who misremember the past may be led into error by misreading history.