Monetary policy

President Donald Trump said he expected Jerome Powell to be a cheap-money Fed chairman.

Global financial markets got uglier while Federal Reserve officials were on their August hiatus, but bond traders are wagering that won’t be enough to deter them from pressing on with monetary-policy tightening.

America’s growing debt pile may force the Federal Reserve to stop shrinking its balance sheet before the year is out, according to former U.S. Treasury adviser Zoltan Pozsar.

The Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates to “somewhat restrictive” levels over the next couple of years to combat the effects of recent fiscal stimulus.

Data will determine if and how high the Federal Open Market Committee will raise rates, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Tom Barkin.

Federal Reserve officials left the benchmark interest rate unchanged while reiterating their plan to gradually lift borrowing costs to keep the economy expanding at a healthy pace.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested on Sunday it was fine for the Federal Reserve to be raising interest rates.

The market will have to wait for meeting minutes to learn policy makers' thinking on the accelerating GDP, the yield curve, interest rates, and trade wars.

Luke Tilley, chief economist at Wilmington Trust, discusses monetary policy and how a yield curve inversion could limit Fed rate hikes. Gary Siegel hosts.

Chairman Jerome Powell is under pressure to adopt what would amount to a put tied to the bond market.