St. Louis Federal Reserve President Alberto Musalem said Tuesday the U.S. central bank's monetary policy stance of "modestly ...

While not directly part of monetary policy, fiscal policy works alongside it. Fiscal policy involves government spending and taxation. For example, if the government spends more on building roads ...

Central banks should still be able to conduct monetary policy effectively and perhaps be even nimbler in a more decentralized ...

This paper revisits the transmission of monetary policy by constructing a novel dataset of monetary policy shocks for an unbalanced sample of 33 advanced and emerging market economies during the ...

For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT May 7, 2025 Although swings in net exports have affected the data, recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. The ...

Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions since 1990. The federal funds rate is the ...

We find that an unanticipated tightening of US monetary policy tends to raise US import prices. This empirical “spill-back” pattern differs from the predictions of typical open-economy macro models.

Monetary policy is a powerful tool used by the Bank ... Let’s break down some of these terms using simple language and relevant examples to show how they impact our lives daily.