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The president hasn’t named a successor to Jerome H. Powell, but his insistence on someone who will lower interest rates has ...
Trump hopes to get lower rates by replacing Fed Chair Jerome Powell with someone who would do what the president wants. But ...
The U.S. central bank’s decision to hold interest rates steady in June was unanimously supported, but officials were starting ...
The newly published meeting minutes highlighted a divide over how Federal Reserve officials expect the economy to respond to ...
Some investors have staked out positions in futures markets that will profit if interest rates drop immediately after Jerome ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used a basketball metaphor to explian President Trump's unsually direct confrontation with ...
New Zealand's central bank held the benchmark interest rate at 3.25% on Wednesday, noting near-term inflation risks, but said ...
Kevin Warsh, the former Fed governor considered the most likely replacement for Jerome Powell to lead the Fed, on Monday ...
President Trump says Fed rate cuts would save the government as much as $900 billion a year in interest payments on its debt.
As long as the economy is in solid shape, we think the prudent thing to do is to wait and see what those effects might be." ...
President Trump escalates pressure on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates by targeting the Federal ...
NPR speaks with David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about Trump's attacks on the Fed chair for not moving to cut interest rates.