The Federal Reserve's policy rate continues to act as a brake on the resilient labor market and on inflation that is still ...

Monetary policy describes the ways in which the central banks change the money supply in order to accomplish certain economic objectives. In the U.S. this is done by the Federal Reserve.

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China will intensify the countercyclical adjustment of its monetary policy and create a sound monetary and financial ...

Rudy Sulgan / Getty Images When it comes to influencing macroeconomic outcomes, governments have typically relied on one of two primary courses of action: fiscal policy or monetary policy.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said he feels U.S. monetary policy is currently "modestly ...

CFR’s Global Monetary Policy Tracker compiles data from 54 countries around the world to highlight significant global trends in monetary policy. Who is tightening policy? Who is loosening policy?

Donald Trump may have won the presidency partly because voters were fed up with inflation. But if he enacts many of the ...

Wall Street’s main indexes were near record highs today, holding on to post-election gains, ahead of the next batch of ...

The goal of Canada’s monetary policy is to promote the economic and financial well-being of Canadians. Experience shows the best way to achieve this goal is by keeping inflation low and stable.

An interest-bearing and universally accessible central bank digital currency (CBDC) could be a versatile instrument that would, in theory, improve monetary policy by allowing non-linear transfers and ...