Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell mentioned the labor market 25 times during his press conference last week. Over and over, he called the labor market "solid" and "good." This week, economist Tim ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appears confident in the US labor market. But that means any signs of a slowdown could ...

Centrally-coordinated economic planning, especially central banking, has been detrimental to liberty, freedom, and the ...

Like other government financial agencies, the Federal Reserve Banks have an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion focused on ...

The Fed sets short-term interest rates, but does not directly control mortgage rates, which tend to move in tandem with the ...

On Jan. 30, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to cut its three key interest rates by 25 basis points. This brings the deposit facility rate to 2.75%, ...

US stocks rose on Thursday, with the Nasdaq (^IXIC) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) eyeing a comeback as investors digested news that the ...

Last month, Fed officials signaled they expect just two rate cuts for all of 2025, a shallower path of reductions than ...

As was widely expected, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) chose to keep its benchmark rate unchanged at ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday held its benchmark interest rate steady at 4.25-4.50 percent, taking a wait-and-see ...

The central bank’s decision to pause at its first meeting of 2025 followed a series of cuts that began in September to ...

President Donald Trump may want lower interest rates, but the Federal Reserve will almost certainly keep its benchmark ...