Monetary policy

Stephen Moore, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a long-time supporter of Donald Trump, is being considered by the president for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.

Federal Reserve officials scaled back their projected interest-rate increases this year to zero and said they would end the drawdown of the central bank's bond holdings in September.

Federal Reserve officials say they’re willing to tolerate an overshoot of their inflation goal. If the opposite happens, the plan is less clear.

Although the Federal Reserve has made clear it will hold interest rates for the time being, the panel still has much to discuss, including the end of balance sheet normalization and the Fed’s review of how it formulates, conducts, and communicates monetary policy.

Duane McAllister, managing director and senior portfolio manager at Baird Advisors, explains why the Fed would like to raise rates at least one more time and what it learned in 2018. Gary Siegel hosts.

After years of rock-bottom interest rates and with unemployment at 3.8%, where is the inflation.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said interest rates can remain on hold as the U.S. central bank waits to see how conditions abroad evolve.

A weakening economic outlook in the U.S. and abroad argue for a “softer” path for interest rates than central bankers previously envisioned, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said.

The U.S. economy cooled in the first two months of 2019, with growth characterized as “slight-to-moderate” across most of the country in a Federal Reserve survey.

Slower economic growth shouldn’t be a concern since it’s the “new normal,” according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams, who said Wednesday this allows the Fed to be patient and data dependent on rate changes.