The Fed prioritizes shrinking its balance sheet over rate cuts to fight inflation. See why its disciplined approach supports growth, jobs, and long-term stability.

As traders brace for another pivotal session on Monday, July 7, 2025, several critical U.S. economic updates could influence ...

Prohibiting the Fed from paying interest on reserves wouldn’t protect taxpayers and would undermine the central bank’s ...

Fed-funds futures indicated an 85.5% probability of the Fed keeping its policy rate at that same level in July and a 54.8% chance that it could lower its rate by a quarter of a percentage point at ...

The Fed stays focused on inflation and employment, with no rate cuts expected soon. Check out my analysis on Fed policy and ...

The Trump administration’s tariffs so far haven’t flowed into U.S. inflation data in a big way, but that seems unlikely to move the Federal Reserve from its wait-and-see approach on interest rates as ...

Financial markets were shaken but not stirred this past spring, according to the Federal Reserve, as swinging stock prices ...

The Treasury spent big on transfers to households via the Fed. A huge fiscal deficit emerged, and the national debt spiked upwards. But the Fed did not allow this to be reflected in higher interest ...

Furthermore, another underappreciated impact of the SLR change is its effect on the Total Loss Absorbing Capital (TLAC) and ...

Unfortunately, central bankers can‘t wave a magic wand and make price inflation disappear while the same central bankers also ...

If Republicans are serious about reducing federal deficit spending, it is important to consider the effect the Federal Reserve has on the nation’s budgetary outlook. If the numerical models imposed by ...

Together, the two rates are designed to keep the federal funds rate, the central bank’s main ... During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fed more than doubled the size of its balance sheet to a peak of $9 ...