Meanwhile, gold prices have increased by 45 percent since the start of the year, partly due to foreign central banks shifting their international reserve holdings away from the dollar toward gold.

The Federal Reserve stepped in last month to safeguard America’s labor market, cutting rates by a quarter point to shore up a slowdown in hiring. But it has another equally important problem still to ...

United States is now a full-blown "tax state" in that lawmakers can raise taxes with minimal effort without meaningful legal ...

It wasn’t the first time he said that. Since July 1, Trump has referred to the U.S. having "no inflation" 11 times at eight events — a radio interview, a bill signing, bilateral meetings with a ...

Inflation is unlikely to hit the Federal Reserve's 2% target on a sustained basis at least through 2022, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said on Wednesday, adding that he was not concerned about ...

Political economist Cristina Bodea talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how central bank independence became the ...

A federal government shutdown, state budget impasse, inflation, and unprecedented food insecurity levels in our region have ...

President Trump’s undermining of the Federal Reserve’s independence could trigger a financial crisis. It would never be a good time for the Federal Reserve to lose its monetary policy independence.