For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT September 17, 2025 Recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year. Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has ...

Discover how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing since 2009 fueled steady U.S. GDP growth. Read what investors need to ...

A new CPI inflation report will be released tomorrow. But we won’t have to wait for that to witness the growing chorus of pundits and politicians who are ...

The central bank put its own independence at risk by straying from its narrow statutory mandate.

It’s time to rethink the foundation and framework of monetary policy In 2008, Queen Elizabeth II famously asked professors at the London School of Economics (LSE) about the global financial crisis: ...

Surveys of professional economic forecasters and financial market data can reveal public perceptions about the future conduct of monetary policy. Current estimates suggest that both professional ...

In his December press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank was embarking on a "new phase" of monetary policymaking. Just what that entails will play out over the next ...

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There is legitimate debate about the actual independence of modern-day central banks, but almost everyone agrees that overt politicization of monetary policy – as we appear to be seeing in the United ...

In the latest episode of monetary tightening in the United States, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets U.S. monetary policy, raised the target level of its key policy interest rate, ...