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Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who broke the back of U.S. inflation in the 1980s and three decades later led President Barack Obama’s bid to rein in the investment risk-taking of commercial banks, has died.
December 9 -
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.
December 6 -
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.
December 5 -
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.
December 4 -
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.
December 4 -
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.
December 3 -
The U.S. economy expanded “modestly” through mid-November amid steady consumer spending and some brighter signs from manufacturers, a Federal Reserve survey showed.
November 27 -
Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard presented her alternative to quantitative asset purchases.
November 26 -
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.
November 26 -
Analysts are not convinced the Fed's mid-cycle adjustment will deliver the elusive soft landing.
November 25