Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell faces four challenges at once, all of them daunting.

AIER held its inaugural monetary conference, Building a Better Fed Framework, at The George Washington University in ...

While Trump will be able to appoint a new Fed chair in 2026, he does not have the ability to set monetary policy or change the federal funds rate. No president has the direct power to reduce mortgage ...

The U.S. Senate has confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent as President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary.

The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, elevating the hedge fund manager to the new ...

We always had private money, We only stopped having it when the government got overbearing, like in 1907. Bitcoin points back ...

Jerome H. Powell has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) since May 25, 2012, ...

Setting interest rates is the job of the Federal Reserve which has full independence from the White ... It's been a busy ...

Economists caution that the surge in public sector employment complicates efforts to control inflation, particularly as the ...

More than four out of five jobs filled in the past two years have been in public service, health and education.

The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady on Jan. 29 and resume cutting in March, according to a slim majority of economists polled by Reuters, as policymakers digest an expected ...