The Federal Reserve meets eight times a year to decide whether to adjust interest rates.

And at each of the last eight meetings, the Fed has raised interest rates in hopes of

bringing down inflation.

But heading into the Fed's meeting this week, no one was quite sure what the Fed was

going to do.

Raise rates again, or finally step on the brakes.

Here's our colleague, Nick Timmeros.

I've covered the Fed for the Wall Street Journal for six years.

And we've never had a situation like this one where the decision was so up in the air

bleeding right into the meeting.

We are expecting another decision from the Federal Reserve Wednesday on interest rates.

Federal Reserve faces a tough decision today about whether to continue raising interest

rates.

This historic day, just a few minutes now, from the biggest Fed decision on interest rates

in some year.

The most important Fed decision in recent memory now, less than 15 minutes away.

The reason there was so much suspense around this meeting is because the Fed is now dealing

with a new problem.

They aren't just fighting inflation anymore.

They're also fighting a banking crisis after two banks collapsed and others continue

to face pressure.

So the Fed has two problems on its hands, inflation and a banking crisis, which one is worse?

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