Federal Reserve officials are battling to maintain their political independence on monetary policy, but the same cannot be said for their regulatory and supervisory authorities. Instead, central bank ...

Former President Trump has repeatedly criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, particularly regarding interest rates. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee defended the Fed's independence ...

He's also worked at U.S. 1, Community News Service and the Middletown Transcript. Officials at the Federal Reserve discussed the possibility of cutting the central bank's key interest rate as soon ...

The biggest question facing the Federal Reserve as it gathers again this week is how to grapple with a tariff-related "tug-of-war" between sticky inflation and a slowing economy — as well as a ...

The Fed is an independent government agency established by Congress. President Donald Trump on Thursday sharply criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, urging the central bank to lower ...

Meddling with the Federal Reserve's ability to independently set interest rates could result in dire consequences for the economy, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on Monday. The top ...

In his first term, President Trump toyed with ousting Jerome H. Powell out of anger that the Federal Reserve chair was moving too slowly to cut interest rates. Mr. Trump refrained from doing so ...

Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. As the Federal Reserve attempts to rightsize its balance sheet, one top reserve bank official said there are risks in both staying too ...

So, Fed Chair Powell's April 16th speech, I think, I would point to as a very informative in that view. Uh, the first Chair Powell said, we can't have a strong, sustained, um, labor market without ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday ratcheted up his criticism against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling for his “termination” for not cutting interest rates quickly enough.

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, with whom President Donald Trump is reported to have discussed firing U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell and ...