Preferred stocks are a heavily criticised asset - but why? What are they and how will todays economic environment affect them?

Bonds are the least topical investment right now. But why? They are a bad investment now, but that might change soon.

The Fed is facing a dilemma: should they combat inflation? No matter what they do, something bad will happen, but they did make a choice.

Why do central banks view inflation as a problem? It's just individual businesses controlling their prices? And what have they done?