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The Federal Reserve today continued with its current rate stance and its current bond buying program, but is now indicating that it will back away from these easy-money policies in 2023 as inflation surges and growth accelerates.

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today which highlights how banks have become so completely awash in deposits that they a... Read →

I was recently contacted by a reader about 5-year CD rates.    Given that the best rate available at any Read →

All indications are that Alexei Navalny is sitting in his prison cell in Siberia fighting for his life.   While US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan finally warned Putin that the US will take action against the Kremlin if... Read →

BestCashCow.com has been monitoring the best savings rates nationwide for over 15 years, and for the first 14 plus, the situation for the consumer was very straightforward.

You’d check to see what the best savings rate is... Read →

The Federal Reserve concluded its 2-day March meeting today with no change in the Fed funds.

The median forecast is for no change in interest rates through 2023 with 4 Fed officials seeing rate hikes in 2022 (up from 1 previous... Read →

The Democrats last controlled the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Presidency in the 111^th Congress from January 2009 to January 2011.   For most of that time, crude oil prices ranged from $100 to $120 a ... Read →

I was reading today that Tufts University, my alma mater, has received over 35% more applicants for the Class of 2025 than it received last year for the Class of 2024.   And, that got me thinking how universities that are space... Read →

We are still in the midst of an horrific pandemic but we have vaccines going in arms now and that is a good time to look at how and when you are going to travel when this pandemic ends and it becomes easier to do so.

I last wro... Read →

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has ended 2020 with all sorts of dovish, benign language, holding monetary policy as easy as possible.

He isn’t forecasting any rate hikes before 2023, with only one Fed governor sug... Read →

Now that we are reaching the end of Jay Powell’s tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, it is fair to say that the man has strayed from his pre-chairmanship policy positions when he had emphasized using Fed policy to promote pr... Read →

Rates on savings products and CD products are incredibly low and have been for several months now.   These are the times when people may be apt to fall for scams and take unnecessary risks.  Don’t do it.

I ... Read →

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and second-tier full service brokerages make a real market in structured notes.   So-called "structured notes" are intricate products that carry the possibility of earning a much higher i... Read →

As interest rates have come down dramatically, following the Fed’s emergency response to the virus, savings and money market rates have become very unappetizin... Read →

The Federal Reserve unanimously voted to leave interest rates unchanged when it concluded its two-day meeting today.   The Fed funds rate remains at a target of zero to 0.25 percent.   The Fed again signaled that... Read →