The Fed loosened monetary policy significantly during its March meeting. “But wait,” you say. “The Fed held interest rates ...

On March 13, 2025, the US Senate Banking Committee passed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act of 2025 or ...

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The justices hear arguments next week in a challenge to the funding structure of the $4 billion program to connect schools to ...

Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters, Downey asks us to consider how Congress might channel the will of the people to make the Fed more responsive to the American polity. The turn of phrase in the ...

Alabama legislators approve a slew of bills including tax exemptions, infrastructure funding, and salary adjustments, sending ...

Centrist pundits take issue with Bernie Sanders’s frequent claim that 60% of Americans are living “paycheck to paycheck.” His ...

The Federal Reserve has a playbook for fighting inflation, and another for boosting the economy when unemployment is rising.

New York Fed President John Williams considers U.S. monetary policy's "modestly restrictive stance" as "entirely appropriate, ...

The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday and signaled that it still expects to cut rates ...

The Federal Reserve exists to create control over the United States monetary system. It was created in 1913 in response to a banking panic, with a goal of ensuring that similar panics would be ...

As widely expected, the Federal Reserve held its key interest rate steady. Officials are waiting for the economy to send ...