A little jawboning won’t hurt, but firing Powell or designating a ‘shadow chairman’ would.

President-elect Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell have clashed before, and there is a chance they could do so ...

Roth tax cut on his desk and threatened veto. Congress buckled, but he still signed the first tax-rate cut of the coming ...

Heading into a new year with a new administration, policymakers project fewer cuts and somewhat more stubborn inflation.

Anybody reading this on a hand-held phone should consider themselves fortunate. Forty years ago, the DynaTAC 8000X was the ...

What has changed since 1974 to prevent gold from competing with and potentially disciplining the dollar's excesses? Nothing ...

The Australian sharemarket surged in 2024, adding nearly $200bn to the value of the benchmark ASX 200 index, despite a ...

On December 18th, the Fed officials voted to reduce the fund’s rate by 25 basis points, tightened their forward guidance on ...

Because, the essence of change lies not in discarding the old but in viewing it with fresh eyes, reimagining paths, and ...

Bessent aims to maintain the strength of the U.S. economy with an adapted version of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...

CAMBRIDGE - Nearly every cabinet or staff appointment announced by US President-elect Donald <a target=_blank href= ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the U.S. economic outlook for 2025. KUOW is Seattle’s ...