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December 18, 2025

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Several VISA and MASTER credit cards are shown in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

What a Federal Reserve rate cut means for your finances

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) attends a news conference with Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee and the Sustainable Investment Caucus at the U.S. Capitol on July 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. The lawmakers discussed corporate environmental and social policy investing. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Rep. Maxine Waters urges use of 25th Amendment to find out what’s ‘wrong’ with Trump

Representative Maxine Waters has called for using the 25th Amendment on President Donald Trump to find out what’s “wrong with him.”

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: U.S. President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell look at a piece of paper alongside Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) as they tour the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation project on July 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration has been critical of the cost of the renovation and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump threatens ‘major lawsuit’ against Powell over ballooning Fed building renovation costs

President Donald Trump threatened to file a “major lawsuit” against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, alleging “grossly incompetent” management of the Federal Reserve’s building construction projects.

US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent (C) attends the Military Family Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 4, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Treasury Secy. Bessent expands search for next Fed Chair

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has disclosed that he is evaluating a shortlist of three candidates to assume the role of Federal Reserve chair when the position becomes vacant next year.

Trump appoints Stephen Miran to serve on Fed. Reserve Board following Kugler resignation

President Donald Trump has appointed economist Stephen Miran to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.