The fundamental issue, in our view, isn’t the current Fed chair but the independence of the institution itself.

The conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting on Wednesday could produce a historic dissent. If so, investors should ...

This Selected Issues Paper reviews Ethiopia’s transition to an interest-rate based monetary framework. For this framework to be effective, monetary transmission—the process through which policy rate ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Federal Reserve's vital independence on monetary policy is threatened by its "mandate creep" into non-policy areas and he called on the U.S. central ...

A U.S. senator's recent push to strip the Federal Reserve of a key aspect of how it controls interest rates and the battle ...

(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman on Tuesday said the central bank's ability to set monetary policy without political interference is "very important." "It's ...

Before going through all chairs chronologically, let’s take a look at stock market returns for each Fed chair, sortable both by annualized returns and annualized, inflation-adjusted “real ...

Powell’s brief prepared remarks gave no monetary-policy hints and, unsurprisingly, didn't mention the Trump administration's pressure campaign. Fed officials are in a blackout period for ...

“Our house view continues to be that the Fed won’t cut this year, but will end up cutting more than expected next year,” Morgan Stanley strategists said. Incidentally, both banks are now at odds with ...

There’s a feeling of optimism in the U.S. stock market about the week ahead, with corporate earnings finally poised to hold the spotlight.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday called on the Federal Reserve to conduct an exhaustive review of its non-monetary policy operations to ensure that "mission ...