For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT May 7, 2025 Although swings in net exports have affected the data, recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. The ...

The Trump administration isn’t exactly known for doing things by the book, but insulting the person they hope saves them from ...

While not directly part of monetary policy, fiscal policy works alongside it. Fiscal policy involves government spending and taxation. For example, if the government spends more on building roads ...

Monetary policy can be wielded as a tool to boost an economy around election time, which explains why politicians want to ...

Monetary policy describes the ways in which the central banks change the money supply in order to accomplish certain economic objectives. In the U.S. this is done by the Federal Reserve.

Sustainable adjustments to trade imbalances require supportive monetary and fiscal policies — not just currency intervention ...

This problem, which is by no means confined to dollarized economies, brings into question the policy of monetary targeting as opposed to, for example, relying on a wider set of indicators. Although ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack signaled Wednesday her support for maintaining the current "modestly restrictive" monetary policy stance to bring inflation down to the central ...

This paper revisits the transmission of monetary policy by constructing a novel dataset of monetary policy shocks for an unbalanced sample of 33 advanced and emerging market economies during the ...

During a briefing call on Monday, Kapteyn told reporters he does not expect the Fed to tighten monetary policy anytime soon. He said recent comments from policymakers about the need to look through ...

(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker did not comment on the economy and monetary policy in a speech text on Monday. The official instead used prepared comments ...

May 2 (Reuters) - India's central bank deputy governor Poonam Gupta has been assigned the monetary policy, financial market operations and economic and policy research portfolios, the Reserve Bank ...