The Federal Reserve is tightening policy, but M2 money stock is rising, supporting the US economy and stock markets despite ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee would like to freeze the U.S. economy right where it is today. With ...

Wages for U.S. workers tracked up in September as average hourly earnings for all employees on private, non-farm payrolls ...

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting last month reveal significant discussion about how policymakers should respond to a potential trade war between the United States and China.

The Federal Open Market Committee voted Wednesday to lower interest rates by 50 basis points, bringing the federal funds rate ...

They were not, though, in a panic or worried about an imminent recession. Instead, they were thinking that the old interest ...

A blockbuster jobs report on Friday paved the way toward a soft landing, in which inflation returns to normal levels while ...

The U.S. economy likely maintained a moderate pace of job growth in September while the unemployment rate is expected to have ...

"On the face of this the Fed should be hiking rates with these sorts of figures, not cutting rates," Economist James ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is the monetary policy-setting body of the U.S. central bank. It meets eight times ...

You can thank, at least in part, a group of policymakers at the U.S. central bank known as the Federal Open Market Committee (or FOMC for short). This committee’s decisions affect everything ...