“It’s by now widely agreed, almost all over the world: If you leave monetary policy in political hands, you’ll get too much inflation,” Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University ...

President Donald Trump this week said he had discussed with a group of Republican lawmakers the possibility of firing Federal ...

Top voices on Wall Street have expressed alarm over the idea that Trump could fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, emphasizing the ...

Fed independence is ‘something we should fight to preserve,’ says David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs. The nation’s biggest ...

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are getting louder about the importance of an independent Federal Reserve as the White House pressure on Jerome Powell intensifies.

Consumers' inflation expectations, by some measures, are also the highest in decades. Inflation has been above the Fed's 2% ...

Tension between the White House and the Federal Reserve is reaching a boiling point, with US President Donald Trump increasing his attacks on chairman Jerome Powell in recent days. Fears that the US ...

In 1997, billionaire Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein hired a then-relatively unknown member of the George H.W. Bush ...

Donald Trump's threat to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is a financial train wreck unfolding ...

Another batch of upbeat U.S. economic data including solid retail sales boosted risk appetite on Thursday, pushing to the ...

Trump has called for aggressive cuts. Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets rates, have taken a wait-and-see approach on interest rates, partly due to concerns about how Trump's ...

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