President Joe Biden is only a few weeks away from the end of his time in office, and one key part of his legacy is undeniable: inflation. Biden has battled inflation from the start, but critics say he helped fuel it with trillions of dollars in deficit spending during his four years in office.
President-elect says he has no plans to ask or order Powell to step down, in spite of past criticism of the monetary body
November's inflation report showed a moderate 2.7% annual increase, which may give the Federal Reserve reason to continue cutting interest rates.
Peter Schiff has explained why the Biden government selling all the country's Bitcoin holdings would be a "good thing."
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s conservative brother writes her column. This year, he crowed about Donald Trump’s victory: “Biden and Harris have left a huge mess. Trump is the right choice to fix it.
The American economy grew at a healthy 3.1% annual clip from July through September, propelled by vigorous consumer spending and an uptick in exports, the government said in an upgrade to its previous estimate.
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce a quarter point cut to its key lending rate on Wednesday despite a recent uptick in inflation, in the central bank's last meeting of Joe Biden's presidency.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday announced a 0.25% reduction in the Fed's lending rate, but the Dow posted a 10th straight day of losses.
The Personal Consumption Expenditures index climbed by 0.1% in November on a month-over-month basis, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said in a statement Friday.
One metric to watch in the CPI data is the year-over-year core CPI, which will play a key role in the outlook for Federal Reserve interest-rate policy, said Brett Kenwell, U.S. investment analyst at e Toro.
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce a quarter point cut to its key lending rate on Wednesday despite a recent uptick in inflation, in the central bank's last meeting of Joe Biden's presidency.
At the Federal Reserve’s final interest rate-setting meeting of 2024, Chair Jerome Powell revealed that the central bank is starting to factor Trump policies into its monetary policy decisions. Powell didn’t mention Trump by name. But investors clearly understood this elliptical construct as a reference to the incoming president: