Matt Phillips

It’s a funny thing about globalization. It works on both the way up and the way down.

It’s tough out there when you’re all alone.

Apple is bumming us out.

Since the financial crisis hit in 2008, the Fed has often been attuned to a specific metric as it seeks to prevent the US economy from slipping into a catastrophic deflationary vortex.

For our money, and pretty much everyone else’s, this is the chart that best explains the parlous state of global financial markets.

This post has been corrected.

With his silver hair, rich baritone, Cambridge education, and British peerage, Adair Turner, Baron of Ecchinswell, would be last person you’d suspect of being an economic radical.

Here we are again.

It’s Saudi Aramco—the world’s most important energy producer, controlling Saudi Arabia’s roughly 321 billion barrels of proven oil and gas reserves.

China’s stock market is a scary place right now. But it isn’t the real problem.

The minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December meeting of its policy-setting committee are out. You’ll remember that after that meeting, the Fed announced an increase to its target short-term interest rate for the first time in nearly a decade. It was a big moment. (So big, we made t-shirts.)

Germany’s remarkable economic run continues, with the number of jobless Germans falling to a post-unification low of 2.757 million in December.

Last year was not a good one for stocks. All told, the S&P 500 ended 2015 with a 0.7% loss.

The world’s most important economic story can be told in a single line.

We all just lived through a momentous week.

An almost biblical seven-year stretch of near zero interest rates effectively ended Wednesday when the Federal Reserve announced that it would increase its benchmark monetary policy rate a quarter of a percent.

It may be the most heavily anticipated quarter percentage point in history.

Many on Wall Street spend large chunks of their lives watching everything the Fed does.

Of all the inventions US chemical giant DuPont has given the world—Lycra, Teflon, Kevlar, Freon, Lucite, Nylon, and so on—perhaps none has been more influential than the one it developed that is now at the core of nearly every major company on the planet: Return on investment.

Jason Zweig, who writes the Intelligent Investor column in the Wall Street Journal, is a distinct voice in the US financial press.

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s linkage to an ongoing E.coli outbreak is having a significant impact on the company’s sales, according to a just-released SEC disclosure, in which the company describes sales in the last three months of 2015 as ”extremely volatile.”

Jobs Friday is upon us once again.

Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Gates, and, now, Zuckerberg.

This is quite literally a very big deal.