The Federal Reserve Building in downtown Washington DC, USA at night. HDR image. The Hoover Institution sponsored a conference this week at Stanford University to commemorate the 50-year anniversary ...

Recent research has identified periods when the Federal Reserve intentionally acted to slow inflation when it exceeded desired levels. The success of these disinflation attempts reveals the extent of ...

Context. Monetary policy has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past four years. Most central banks have quickly pivoted from aggressively easing monetary policy in 2020 to aggressively ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), this year, implemented a series of interest rate hikes, raising the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 26.25% in May to 27.50% by this month, to combat rising inflation ...

At "Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy," an economic symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming Over the ...

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - MARCH 19: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after voting at a polling station setup in the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on March 19, 2024, in ...

Surveys of professional economic forecasters and financial market data can reveal public perceptions about the future conduct of monetary policy. Current estimates suggest that both professional ...

Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to be with you here at this critical juncture for the global economy. Since early April, the US effective tariff rate has increased to levels last seen over a hundred ...

Learn the significance of a Fed pivot, when the Federal Reserve shifts its monetary policy, and how these changes affect the economy and financial markets.

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday made remarks at the Jackson Hole Symposium and left doors open foor a possible rate cut in the Fed's upcoming meeting. US stocks extended gains ...