Economy

The United States Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by half of a percentage point, kicking off what is expected to be a steady easing of monetary policy with a...

The Federal Reserve moved to cut interest rates by a half percentage point—the first reduction since the central bank cut rates to near zero when the pandemic struck in 2020—in...

The US Federal Reserve aggressively cut a key interest rate by half a point on Wednesday. The large rate cut is the first time the funds rate has dropped in...

Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan’s crucial tech industry has been unwittingly drawn into Middle East politics after revelations that thousands of exploding pagers used to kill members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group...

Taipei, Taiwan – Imagine boarding a train that glides above the ground at supersonic speeds. Speeding through an airless tube using powerful electro-magnets, passengers could travel from San Francisco to...

Mateusz Morawiecki is the former prime minister of the Republic of Poland. I previously wrote in POLITICO about a trap I call “Europe’s Impossible Trinity” — what I see as...

Nothing Will Stop the Fed from Cutting The economic news that arrived as the Federal Reserve began its two-day meeting Tuesday suggests that the economy continues to grow more rapidly...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China announces plans to raise its retirement age for the first time, Beijing abruptly ends international adoptions, and Goldman Sachs and Citigroup...

When former President Donald Trump spoke to the National Association of Black Journalists in July, he sparked outrage and said his opponent “happened to turn Black.” When Vice President Kamala...

Now that inflation has cooled, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by at least 0.25 percentage points this week. That should be welcome news for all Americans...