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 ...

The Fed’s past experiences with credit controls uniformly have been judged to be failures, as anyone versed in monetary policy history would know. The Fed is now becoming increasingly ...

The Federal Reserve approved a fourth-straight rate ... range will be appropriate in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2 percent ...

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

The Fed' regulates inflation and employment by adjusting monetary policy. It prevents economic crises, supervises banks, and ensures that all checks, money transfers, and more can be trusted.

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 ...

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 ...

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 look back into history reveals presidential "conversations" have ... future presidents will refrain from having their say in managing the path of monetary policy. The Fed's top-down approach in ...

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 ...