Monetary policy

With Federal Reserve officials offering a united front on keeping interest rates steady, attention will focus on the Summary of Economic Projections and the repo market.

As the Federal Open Market Committee convenes for its final scheduled meeting this year, one where President Trump kept upping the political pressure, the 2020 elections threaten to make the situation worse.

Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who broke the back of U.S. inflation in the 1980s and three decades later led President Barack Obama’s bid to rein in the investment risk-taking of commercial banks, has died.

The strength of Friday’s employment report confirms that growth will pick up and recession is unlikely before 2023, according to at least one expert.

Peter Ireland, an economics professor at Boston College and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee, discusses why the Fed’s 2019 “reversal” made sense, the economy, low inflation, how referencing a rule could help the Fed with monetary policy, and the biggest challenge facing the central bank. Gary Siegel hosts.

The Federal Reserve’s banking regulation chief granted that Wall Street may have been right that the agency shares blame in September’s alarming strain in money markets.

Wednesday's ADP employment number and the ISM's non-manufacturing index missed forecasts, raising the possibility a rate cut will be discussed if Friday's jobs report also disappoints.

The economy is in a different place than it was entering 2019, when the Federal Reserve was in a tightening cycle, yield curves were inverting, and the markets expected a recession.

The U.S. economy expanded “modestly” through mid-November amid steady consumer spending and some brighter signs from manufacturers, a Federal Reserve survey showed.

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard presented her alternative to quantitative asset purchases.