Donald Trump has beckoned the Federal Reserve to slash the federal funds rate, evidently out of fear that current monetary policy will obstruct his imminent imposition of widespread tariffs. Jerome ...

U.S. inflation accelerated in January, unwelcome news to markets, companies and consumers hoping for interest rate relief, as ...

Four years after blasting United States fiscal and monetary policymakers for excessive stimulus that risked the biggest inflation blowout in a generation, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers ...

The central bank has halted hiring to align with a White House directive and pulled back its work on climate change.

A 41-year-old Boston University graduate with a PhD in economics from Harvard and now a senior strategist at hedge fund ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell discussed inflation and the economy at an event hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business. Federal ...

And yet Federal Open Market Committee Chairman Jerome Powell says he hasn’t had any contact with the new occupant of the White House. Even before President Donald Trump got the keys to the White ...

Biden selected Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Secretary of the ... by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Jerome Powell was first nominated to the role by former President Donald ...

By Colby Smith Listen to our interview with Jerome Powell. By Andrew Ross SorkinEvan RobertsDan PowellKelly PiekloZachary Mouton and Sarah Kessler Rates may not come down as much or as quickly ...

The Federal Reserve defied Donald Trump’s demands for lower borrowing costs by keeping US interest rates on hold and ...

Fed officials, led by Chair Jerome Powell, have cut their rate ... Former president Joe Biden reappointed Powell, rather than replacing him, in a nod to central bank independence from politics.