Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions since 1990. The federal funds rate is the ...

Fed’s interest rate history of 1981-1990: Volcker fights the ‘Great Inflation’ with historic rate moves and aggressively ...

Congress wanted expansionary monetary policy and Arthur Burns caved ... range of issues than had any other chairman in the Fed’s history.”) None of this really should be surprising, because ...

we’ll see the latest monetary policy statement from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which is almost 100% certain to render an unchanged verdict to the +4.25-4.50% Fed funds rate that ...

Beyond that, there is little historical experience to guide policymakers or investors, because the current economic cycle is like no other in U.S. history ... Fed’s 2 percent target, monetary ...

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman made history on Wednesday by casting ... as it aligns with her more hawkish stance on monetary policy, favoring a tighter approach to combat inflation.

In January 2019, after a series of discussions around long-run frameworks for monetary policy implementation, the FOMC communicated its intention to maintain an ample supply of reserves, affirming the ...

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said monetary policy is in a “good place” to continue to bring ...

The Fed's upcoming policy choices pose one ... "Trump clearly wants to set monetary policy by proxy. History celebrates the central bankers that stand up to political pressure, not the ones ...

A Federal Reserve interest-rate cut on Wednesday is looking all but certain. How stocks might react as the central bank loosens monetary policy, however, remains very much up in the air.

But history suggests this charge is far ... to be in place over the next four years. So maybe the Fed will have to keep monetary policy slightly tighter than it had planned to counter lax fiscal ...

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that, while the Federal Reserve hit a “low point” in its monetary policy history by failing to act quickly against the 2021 inflation surge ...