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The Fed Hiked Rates Into an Oil Shock. Some Economists Think That's a Mistake.

Wednesday's quarter-point increase was the widely expected move, but the reasoning behind it — and the hawkish tone that followed — is drawing pushback from economists who say the Fed is tightening into the wrong kind of inflation.

When the AI Bosses Talk About Slowing Down, It Is Important to Understand Why, and What Is Coming

Washington's Fingerprints Are Now All Over Your Credit Score

A federal housing regulator's tweets are doing more to reshape mortgage underwriting than years of industry lobbying

Top AI Chiefs Call for Voluntary Slowdown as OpenAI Shelves 2026 IPO

Anthropic's Dario Amodei urged rivals to pace AI development; Sam Altman and Elon Musk expressed agreement

The Fed Isn't Just Hiking Anymore — Wall Street Now Bets on Three or Four

What started the week as a debate over whether the Fed would raise rates once has hardened into wagers on a longer hiking campaign, and the bond market got there first

Retailers Keep Beating Earnings, and Wall Street Keeps Debating What That Means

Strong headline earnings and reaffirmed guidance are colliding with a stock market that can't decide whether resilient results are good news or a warning sign about an overheating economy

The 10-Year Just Crossed 4.9%, and the Housing Market Is Feeling It Before the Fed Even Moves

Existing home sales fell again in August as mortgage rates track a bond market that's stopped believing rate cuts are coming — and started pricing in the opposite

Anthropic's IPO Is Coming, and It's a Bet on 30 Gigawatts of Faith

The AI lab is reportedly planning to go public within weeks, having locked in compute commitments that dwarf anything in the industry

The Decision That Matters Most: Why Asset Allocation Drives Everything Else

The decision that shapes a long-term investor's experience more than any other is far less glamorous. It is Asset Allocation: The basic question of how your money is divided among stocks, bonds, cash, and other asset classes.

Burner Prudenti: Business Succession Planning: Protecting What You’ve Built

Q: I own a business that depends heavily on me. What will happen to the business if I die or become unable to manage it?