A Republican lawmaker tasked with scrutinizing Federal Reserve monetary policy wants the U.S. Congress to help stabilize ...

What used to be an independent body, the Federal Reserve, is now part of the political discussions under the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on Fed Chair Jerome ...

Rep. Frank Lucas is exploring legislation to ensure the Federal Reserve remains independent of political influence, amid ...

Some legal scholars have argued that the Supreme Court has kept Humphrey’s Executor in place specifically because of fears ...

Trump nominated Powell to serve as chair of the Federal Reserve. ( SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images) Trump's comments come after he said in a Truth Social post last week that Powell ...

Tesla’s profits have plummeted to a five year low as the electric car company counts the cost of Elon Musk’s alliance with ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the Economic Club of Chicago, April 16, 2025. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images In November, days after Trump’s election victory, Powell struck ...

The Bernanke strategy focuses on stimulating the stock market to drive economic growth, emphasizing quantitative variables over interest rates. The Fed's quantitative easing and tightening cycles ...

That difference could be rooted in the historical governance structure of the predecessor organizations to the Federal Reserve, the First and Second Banks of the United States, or in the type of ...

It's not clear Trump has the authority to do so, and even if successful the Fed's governance structure would give the remaining board members and regional bank presidents say over interest rate ...

The economic stakes of Federal Reserve independence are immense, Ross Levine and Amit Seru write in a guest commentary.

Investopedia / Photo Composite by Alice Morgan / Getty Images President Donald Trump reiterated his call for Federal Reserve rate cuts Monday, extending attacks on the central bank's chair that he ...