Powell Refuses to Take the Media’s Tariff Panic Bait The financial press is hyperventilating about Trump’s tariffs, but the Federal Reserve’s latest Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) makes clear the ...
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, holding steady at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent for a second consecutive meeting as officials signaled that inflation remains ...
Tariffs of 25% on Canada and Mexico, announced then delayed a month ago, that took effect overnight, hit stocks today in a broad-based selloff following a steep drop Monday. The ...
How Tariffs Could Push the Fed to Cut Rates Heads exploded across the establishment financial press on Wednesday when President Donald Trump proclaimed that tariffs and lower rates go hand ...
Bessent Explains the Trump Is Not Demanding Rate Cuts Now We got some powerful support this week for our argument that President Donald Trump is not demanding that the Federal ...
Powell Sticks to His Lane, Frustrating Reporters Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell did a fine job at his press conference Wednesday of staying out of the way of politics despite ...
The Fed’s Been Wrong About the Economy for Years The Federal Reserve’s rate-cutting cycle has very likely come to an end—although it may take Fed officials several months to figure ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House appears to put the Federal Reserve on a slower and shallower path for interest rate cuts, with a slew of new policies embraced by the Republican leader poised ...
Fed’s Rate Cut: A Premature Misstep Driven by Politics The Federal Reserve’s 50-basis-point rate cut in September wasn’t just premature—it was driven by political pressures. Last Friday’s jobs report laid ...
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Breitbart News economics editor John Carney stated that the Federal Reserve should have waited until after the election to make rate cuts ...
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