There’s No Such Thing As An ‘Apolitical’ Fed, Nor Does It Matter
With or without a Fed acting as a full employment act for economists, economic growth and money will take care of themselves ...
Where Does Money Come From?
The US Treasury runs the nation’s mints. Those mints print money. However, they do not print new money, per se. The only way ...
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What happened when Richard Nixon wanted more control over interest rates
This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.
Fed Monetary Policy Report flags solid economy, elevated markets
The Federal Reserve's latest Monetary Policy Report to Congress, released on Friday, was upbeat about the state of the ...
Column-Fed Nears QT Crossroads as 'Excess Liquidity' Evaporates: McGeever
That may be true, but once there is no excess liquidity sloshing around the system, liquidity drained by QT will have to come ...
Fed officials are raising concerns about the impact Trump's tariffs could have on inflation
Federal Reserve officials take great pains not to comment on fiscal policy, but the looming threat from tariffs is forcing ...
Fed's Goolsbee Warns of Potential Inflationary Impact of Tariffs
The U.S. economy is strong, the labor market is "plausibly" at full employment, and inflation has come down and is ...
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Fed's balance sheet runoff nears pivotal moment
As the Federal Reserve's overnight reverse repurchase agreement program nears zero, pressure could mount on the central bank ...
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Does Monetary Policy Tightening Reduce Inflation?
Recent research has identified periods when the Federal Reserve intentionally acted to slow inflation when it exceeded ...
Real World Economics: The Fed cannot save our wayward economy
An applied Friedmanite, Volcker understood that excess growth of the money supply was the root cause of this ...
U.S. Money Supply Recently Did Something Last Seen During the Great Depression -- and It's Historically a Precursor to a Big Move in Stocks
Based on what 155 years of historic precedent tells us about notable declines in M2 and the performance of the U.S. economy ...
Fed holds interest rates steady as inflation remains above 2%
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will leave its benchmark ... by the fact they removed the reference on inflation ...