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Friday's top personal finance stories.

The policy-sensitive 2-year Treasury yield jumped on Friday, finishing with its second week of advances, after two Federal Reserve policy makers reinforced the central bank's message that more rate hikes are needed to bring down inflation.

The debate between Republicans and Democrats over the standard deduction, a widely-used measure to reduce taxable income, is heating up.

A simple, fair and cheap policy proposal to tackle the racial retirement gap

Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer is adamant that something will come out of the reparations task force's efforts, he said in an interview ahead of Juneteenth.

The stock market's actions suggest the consumer-led recession many have been calling for appears to have ended months ago.

Vanguard’s latest retirement yearbook has a sobering message—and some hope

Prices for most commodities have moved lower year to date, with coal, natural gas and nickel among the big decliners, suggesting inflation has reached its peak and recession may not be too far behind.

Unless you rethink long-held money beliefs, you risk passing the wrong lessons onto your offspring.

The Treasury Department releases its foreign exchange report on Friday.

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