Monetary policy describes the ways in which the central banks change the money supply in order to accomplish certain economic objectives. In the U.S. this is done by the Federal Reserve.

Here are five monetary policy developments to track during the year ahead. In its last meeting, the FOMC voted to reduce its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point, to a range between 4.25% and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he wants the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates at a time the central bank has hit pause for an uncertain duration, arguing he understands monetary ...

CFR’s Global Monetary Policy Tracker compiles data from 54 countries around the world to highlight significant global trends in monetary policy. Who is tightening policy? Who is loosening policy?

Ben Bernanke’s contributions to economic thinking have been vast, from his extensive study of the Great Depression to groundbreaking research on the interplay of finance and the macroeconomy and the ...

From a 2013 special paper entitled “Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises in the Role of Monetary Policy,” by Greenlaw, Hamilton, Hooper, and Mishkin. According to the authors’ projections, by 2020 the ...

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) said in a statement it will "implement a moderately loose monetary policy... to create a good monetary and financial environment for promoting sustained economic ...