Wide-spread mask wearing and following other health-care measures will be vital to economic growth in the U.S., said Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan.

Although the recovery process from the COVID-19 stated, the economy has a long way to go.

Economic activity in parts of the U.S. is showing signs of leveling off amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic.

The minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's June meeting were released on Wednesday and there was much discussion about yield curve control.

Two Federal Reserve presidents said the central bank is committed to fighting racism as an economic issue.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell told House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters that the Fed was looking at ways to adjust the Municipal Liquidity Facility to make some additional issuers eligible.

With interest rates expected to stay near zero for the foreseeable future, the market expects the Fed to implement yield curve control.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stressed the importance of keeping the coronavirus contagion contained as the U.S. economy bounces back from its deepest contraction in decades.

A Fed takeover of municipal lending is a weighty policy decision fraught with dangers that should not be inadvertently or capriciously back-doored into existence during a pandemic.

Two Federal Reserve presidents say it's gotten harder to predict what will happen with the economy.

The lawmakers argued in a letter to the Federal Reserve that suspending dividend payouts would be the "prudent course of action," allowing banks to build their capital cushions and continue lending during the coronavirus pandemic.

Recurring coronavirus outbreaks will probably hold back U.S. economic growth and leave unemployment at elevated levels in the coming years, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said a strategy of capping Treasury yields out to a certain maturity may not work and such yield curve control seems unnecessary with the market pricing in rates near zero out into the future.

Bond analyst Joseph Krist examines the types of debt most vulnerable to the coronavirus hit. He also discusses the Federal Reserve's Municipal Lending Facility. Recorded June 10. Paul Burton hosts.

Fed researchers look at Japan's experience with YCC.

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida said the U.S. central bank is prepared to take additional steps to support the economy through the damage caused by the coronavirus.

In an essay published on the Atlanta Fed website, Raphael Bostic called on the central bank to do more for the disadvantaged.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told Congress the Fed will "keep its foot" on the gas pedal until the pandemic ends.

Jerome Powell agreed with senators who said the slow pace of economic growth following the Great Recession was partly due to spending cuts made by state and local governments.

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida said the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic may threaten the stability of long-term inflation expectations, a force economists believe is crucial to anchoring price pressures at their optimum level.