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Most Federal Reserve officials agreed last month that surging inflation and a rapidly recovering labor market could warrant a faster-than-expected interest rate hike as policymakers seek to wind down pandemic-era support for the U.S. economy.

Arthur Laffer Jr. warns the Fed will wait until the inflation "fire's going on" before correcting it.

With the S&P 500, the broadest measure of the U.S. stock market, sitting at a record high, strategists are cautiously optimistic about 2022, but there are a fair amount of wildcards.

Annual inflation is running at the hottest pace in nearly four decades as widespread supply disruptions, extraordinarily high consumer demand and worker shortages fuel rapidly rising price increases.

Consumer confidence marched higher even with the COVID chaos and rising inflation.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is entering 2022 with the American economy on shaky ground, teeing up a challenging year for the U.S. central bank as it accelerates its withdrawal of support, all while navigating the ever-changing landscape of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Federal Reserve may need to get more radical says Larry Summers.

Mortgage rates are up slightly but could see much more growth as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise rates. Here's how homeowners can benefit now.

Fed officials also plan to accelerate the central bank's tapering of bond purchases as they adjust their economic outlook on high inflation.

Inflation is surging at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years. Now, the Federal Reserve is discussing raising rates up to three times in 2022.

Bitcoin is trading higher Thursday morning following a jump on Wednesday afternoon after the conclusion of the Fed's final policy meeting of the year and Chairman Jerome Powell's press conference.

Former Wells Fargo chief economist John Silvia and Federated Hermes CIO of global equities Steve Auth respond to Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's last announcement of 2021.

Fed Chair Powell faces the music as inflation runs wild despite earlier views of it being "transitory" even as gas and food prices soar.

Investors await the Federal Reserve's final meeting of the year.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced plans to accelerate the wind down of its aggressive bond-buying program, opening the door to interest-rate liftoff in the first half of next year as policymakers seek to combat the hottest inflation in four decades.

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi predicts the Fed will announce bond rollbacks and rate hikes to take effect in March.

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday are expected to lay out plans to begin accelerating the winding down of their massive bond-buying program as they seek to remove the crutches from the U.S. economy in order to combat the hottest inflation in four decades.

Investors are watching to see if the uptick in Covid-19 cases and the new Omicron variant changes how quickly the Fed will wind down easy-money policies that have helped fuel this year’s stock rally when it concludes its meeting Wednesday.

Investors traded lightly ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting later this week and a key report on inflation due Tuesday.

FOX Business' Stuart Varney blasts Biden for pushing his expensive economic agenda amid surging inflation and how the Fed will solve it