The recent downturn in the stock market appears to be subsiding, with several optimistic indicators emerging from the Fed's latest policy assembly.
Bill Gross, who pioneered the “total return” strategy in the 1980s that revolutionized the bond market, says the approach is now defunct.
The nation’s debt, currently over $34 trillion, is rampantly growing as U.S. lawmakers have been unable to agree to budget reforms that could tame it.
The Fed kept interest rates unchanged, holding the fed funds rate at a 23-year high between 5.25%-5.50% amid a "lack of progress at it's 2% target.