Before getting voted back into the Oval Office for his second term, Trump promised to end inflation. His first 100 days in ...

In a purely economic sense, inflation refers to a general increase in price levels due to an increase in the quantity of money; the growth of the money stock increases faster than the level of ...

Soft landing and hard landing refer to two economic outcomes resulting from the Federal Reserve's actions on interest rates ...

Central banks shape the rhythm of the economy in many ways, from policy settings to money determinations that can have a ...

There’s any number of directions tariff rates could go—a small increase, a big increase, no increase—from here forward. And depending on that, there’s a lot of different directions that monetary ...

The emerging divide among Federal Reserve officials over the outlook for interest rates is being driven largely by differing expectations for how tariffs might affect inflation, a record of ...

The Fed held the Fed Funds Rate at 4.25-4.50%, citing solid labor market conditions and elevated inflation. Chair Powell emphasized a "wait and see" approach, highlighting "uncertainty" and "no need ...

The rapidly rising rate of inflation dipped slightly last month, but it’s still on an upward trend. Median household income went from $69,639 in 2019 to $69,717 in 2021. Some states did see an ...

On Saturday, Kamala Harris was asked to respond to Donald Trump’s suggestion that the president should have a say in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions. She was vehemently opposed, saying, ...

We investigate the impact of high frequency monetary policy shocks in Brazil using daily data and Rigobon’ s identification via heteroskedasticity. We show that positive changes in interest rates ...