The 5 Worst Things About the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...
Why would DOGE kill the CFPB?
It seems like a dumb idea to shut down the US’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
White House Tip Line Tells Banks To Snitch On Financial Regulators Doing Their Jobs
The Trump administration has debuted a “tip line” for financial institutions and the public to report financial regulators who are still doing their jobs despite a White House “stand down” order.
How Republicans calling for smaller government could use the Fed's balance sheet to wield more power
Both times, the Fed's balance grew in size, reaching a peak of almost $9 trillion in 2022, but the second period of asset purchases consisted mostly of lower-coupon, longer-duration bonds that plunged ...
Openbank Savings Rates
Find out Openbank Savings rates and how it compares to other online high-yield savings accounts in our review.
Fiscal Flows, Bank Credit, The Fed For January
Explore January 2025's liquidity surplus, potential $1.1T tax cuts, paused Fed hikes, and rising risk asset opportunities for ...
Ray Dalio: We Need to Cut the Budget Deficit Now. Here’s How We Do It
In Ray Dalio's forthcoming book "How Countries Go Broke" he argues that the United States' budget deficit should be cut.
Why Trump wants to buy Greenland — and how much it could cost
David Barker, a real estate developer and former economist at the New York Fed, told The New York Times that Greenland could ...
A 40% stock-market crash? How AI hype could unravel-and how investors can brace for a selloff.
U.S. technology stock crash. The Magnificent 7 tech stocks now make up 33% of the S&P 500 SPX by market cap, and with valuations already high, a return to the long-term price/earnings average alone ...
US Dollar goes anywhere as focus now shifts to CPI figures after Powell's cautious tone
The US Dollar Index trades with losses for the second consecutive session on Tuesday, hovering above 108.00 without clear ...
Alliant CD Rates: Pros, Cons, and Current Rates
Explore Alliant Credit Union CD rates. Anyone in the U.S. can join Alliant Credit Union and get a regular or jumbo certificate with competitive rates.
Markets are betting Trump’s bark is worse than his bite. Consumers are not
The Street is hardly a reliable barometer of our long-term economic health. And just because markets are bored of the tariff rhetoric doesn’t mean the danger isn’t real.