Monetary policy, one of the tools governments have to affect the overall performance of the economy, uses instruments such as interest rates to adjust the amount of money in the economy. Monetarists ...

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 ...

What monetary policy instruments has the central bank used to achieve this objective, and what lessons has it learned in the process? Russia became independent at the end of 1991, when the Soviet ...

An interest-bearing and universally accessible central bank digital currency (CBDC) could be a versatile instrument that would, in theory, improve monetary policy by allowing non-linear transfers and ...