When it comes to the US economy, the spotlight is on whom the president-elect might try to dismiss rather than whom he plans ...

Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration’s plans to weaken the central bank’s independence.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held a news conference after the central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points, bringing its benchmark federal-funds rate to a two-year low.

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

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

The longstanding tensions between President-elect Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell are expected to take ...

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

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

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.

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

The Federal Reserve's plans for interest rate cuts in 2025 are up in the air as officials wait to see what policy ...

The Federal Open Market Committee, which votes on changes in interest rates, includes a rotating cast of presidents from 11 ...