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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for 50bps to offset missed opportunities earlier this summer, but some analysts ...
Despite President Trump ramping up pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates, the Fed held rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5% on July 30. Trump has been insistent on a major cut ...
Trump on Tuesday ramped up his pressure on Jerome Powell to cut interest rates, threatening to allow a lawsuit over the ...
July inflation data suggests the FOMC's dual mandate may not be in as much of a pickle as economists previously feared.
Jeremy Siegel thinks rate cuts at all FOMC meetings through next March are justified, taking the federal-funds rate down toward 3%.
Citing sharp downward revisions to U.S. job growth, Bowman reiterated her forecast for three cuts this year while warning ...
On the monthly chart, August has begun on the back foot, erasing a chunk of July’s rebound and nudging the year’s broader downtrend back into gear. So far, the index has found solid support near 96.40 ...
In the media, the U.S. Federal Reserve is under siege. President Donald Trump constantly threatens to fire Chair Jerome Powell. The Supreme Court has confirmed that the chair can't be dismissed except ...
President Trump is fond of telling people how intelligent and well-educated he is. He did receive a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ...
Donald Trump’s desire to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve is unlikely to alter Fed decision making or ...
Miran, an architect of Trump’s tariff policy, would be a temporary fix. He’d serve the remainder of outgoing Fed Gov. Adriana ...
The way the Fed is designed, there isn’t too much the new Fed chair can do outside of setting a change in tone and publicly pushing for a new direction.