Monetary policy

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.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell struck an upbeat tone in gauging the ability of policy makers to extend the record U.S. economic expansion, while signaling interest rates would probably remain on hold.

Analysts are not convinced the Fed's mid-cycle adjustment will deliver the elusive soft landing.

Judy Shelton, one of President Donald Trump’s most recent picks for the Federal Reserve board, challenged an article of faith regarding the U.S. central bank in private comments to a bank executive last month: that it should operate free of political influence.

Potential downside risks from “global developments” persuaded most members of the Federal Open Market Committee to vote to cut the benchmark rate in October, and then to hold it.

The minutes of the most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting may offer perspective on the holding pattern for rates.

President Donald Trump invited Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell to meet at the White House with him and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, with few details released.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell doesn't see signs of recession in “the star economy,” while the St. Louis Fed's Bullard warns of a sharper-than-expected slowdown.

The most telling part of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's appearance before the Joint Economic Committee was when he refused to commit to the fed funds rate staying where it is for the next year.

Economic Club of New York attendees questioned the president's claims of an economic boom as well his efforts to spur the Federal Reserve into cutting interest rates faster.

With the fed funds rate target cut to a range of 1.50% to 1.75%, the Federal Reserve may not have enough firepower to respond to the next economic shock.

Unlike previous central bank chiefs, Powell’s chances of being renominated by either the current president or many of the Democratic contenders are slim.

Two Federal Reserve policymakers warned that climate change poses current and future risks to the U.S. economy.

A phase-out of U.S.-China trade tariffs would keep the Federal Reserve on the sidelines.