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The Federal Reserve holds its latest interest rate meeting this week, with policymakers expecting rates to be left unchanged ...
The president wanted to take Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, to task over the cost of renovations to the central bank’s ...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is facing pressure from all sides as the Fed’s banking regulation conference kicks off ...
Slashing government interest rates could have the paradoxical effect of raising the interest rates paid in the real world.
The White House uses an overbudget renovation of Fed headquarters to pressure Fed Chair Powell out of his job. Will it work? And does it even matter?
At first, it was on/off tariff threats that rattled markets; today, it is the role of the Federal Reserve. Last week, in his latest salvo, Trump again said that though he would not try to fire Fed ...
Chicago Federal Reserve president Austan Goolsbee expressed support for Jerome Powell and central bank independence when ...
Investors, not the Fed, control the interest rates that matter most to businesses and consumers. They might demand higher ...
Economic growth appears to be resuming in the second quarter, following a slight pullback in the first quarter where the US economy saw real GDP fall by 0.5%.
Tariffs pose rising inflation and rate cut risks for H2 2025 as CPI data hints at early price pressures in key goods. See why ...
Inflation surged to 2.7% in June, the highest since February, driven by tariffs on goods like furniture and appliances ...
Trump and the Trump administration have increasingly turned their fire on Powell and his leadership of the central bank.