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 ...

Higher inflation readings left Fed officials telling lawmakers, business executives and the public that they may be waiting ...

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 ...

Republican senators revived a bill last week to block the Federal Reserve from creating a central bank digital currency.

The Fed acted after Trump mandated a governmentwide hiring freeze, ordering that no federal position vacant at that time could be filled and no new positions created. "The Fed has historically ...