CD rates have skyrocketed since March 2022, when the Federal Reserve implemented what was its first rate hike after dropping the federal funds rate to zero at the start of the pandemic. Since that first post-pandemic increase, the Fed has hiked rates nine more times in a bid to tame decades-high inflation, with the latest increase coming almost two weeks ago.
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