The 2022 Investor’s Guide

It’s been a year of mixed messages. Even as the COVID pandemic dragged on through 2021, U.S. equity indexes kept climbing, Big Tech got bigger, and "meme stocks" and cryptocurrencies soared to nosebleed heights. Will the everything-goes-up market keep ticking—or will inflation bring the party to a halt? Our finance reporters and our panel of experts cut through the confusion in this special report.