First American News LLC, Raleigh, NC: For investors, this has been a year like no other. Stocks soared, bonds slumped, Bitcoin went bonkers—on the upside and down—and nonfungible tokens became a head-scratching asset class, after an NFT of a digital collage by an artist known as Beeple sold at auction for $69 million. By our math, that equates to 339 times the annual salary of the chairman of the Federal Reserve, which flooded the pandemic-plagued U.S. economy with trillions of dollars in stimulus over the past two years, inflating the price of numerous assets. Click here to continue reading on the stock market for 2022 and interest rates at Bloomberg News.
