Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration’s plans to weaken the central bank’s independence.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held a news conference after the central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points, bringing its benchmark federal-funds rate to a two-year low.

The Federal Reserve's rate-cutting plans for 2025 may face challenges from inflation and Trump's policies. Click here to read ...

The Australian sharemarket surged in 2024, adding nearly $200bn to the value of the benchmark ASX 200 index, despite a ...

President-elect Donald Trump has a mandate to implement populist policies, but like President Biden, he is inclined to ...

President-elect Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell have clashed before, and there is a chance they could do so ...

Trump and Fed Chair Powell tensions grow as Trump's 2025 economic agenda challenges Fed policies and independence.

A little jawboning won’t hurt, but firing Powell or designating a ‘shadow chairman’ would.

As 2024 ends, bankers' predictions for what would happen this year to community banks, digital assets and regulation have ...

What has changed since 1974 to prevent gold from competing with and potentially disciplining the dollar's excesses? Nothing ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the U.S. economic outlook for 2025. CapRadio provides a ...

The Federal Open Market Committee, which votes on changes in interest rates, includes a rotating cast of presidents from 11 ...