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The Federal Reserve is planning on staying “patient” at this week’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.

The biggest question in economics today is whether the Fed can engineer a soft landing.

The announcement of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate target is likely to be the least interesting thing coming out of this week’s Fed meeting.

You have to wonder if Jerome Powell is a bit frustrated that the unbridled enthusiasm of the stock market this week.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the Fed is no longer forecasting a recession given the latest economic data showing the resilience of the U.S. economy.

The U.S. economy is going to see a resurgence of inflation that will “disrupt everybody’s narratives,” Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.

Maybe history will call this week’s move by the Federal Reserve the Barbenheimer Hike.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers predicted that the Federal Reserve will

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” acting Labor Secretary Julie Su acknowledged that the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates to tame inflation is hurting many people and stated that “We should acknowledge some of the pain that Americans

Although Chinese Communist officials and regime media continue to insist the economy is fundamentally strong and merely experiencing a few bumps on the road to post-pandemic recovery, Beijing is reportedly “planning major steps” to revive a deeply ailing financial system, possibly including billions in fresh infrastructure spending and looser rules for property investment.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers argued that we do not have

The Federal Reserve’s Summary of Economic Projections from March now appear to be seriously outdated.

A decline in the self-employed gig economy could be pulling more workers into payroll jobs while also increasing the unemployment rate, Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney explained.

The labor market is putting the Federal Reserve to the test.

The labor market is still refusing to cooperate with the narrative that the economy is softening.

The deal to suspend the limit on federal government debt until 2025 removes one of the obstacles to another Federal Reserve rate increase.

It is getting harder and harder to justify not raising rates at the next meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Someone forgot to tell the mall rats that the economy is supposed to be in a recession any day now.

Federal Reserve officials are working overtime to jawbone the market away from the conviction that the Fed will cut rates several times this year.

Even though Wall Street is betting on an interest rate cut, the Federal Reserve could hike rates at its next meeting in June, Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney explained.

The Federal Reserve fired a shot across the bow of market complacency on interest rates.

The first-quarter GDP report bears all the signs of stagflation and makes a Fed rate hike all but inevitable, Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” economist and President of Queens’ College Dr. Mohamed El-Erian stated that inflation has now migrated into areas of the economy that are not as sensitive to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes and so

It seems very unlikely that the Federal Reserve will end its rate hike cycle.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell introduced a third dimension to the Fed’s monetary policy: the pace of interest rate hikes.

The strength of the labor market is giving rise to the idea that instead of a “soft landing” or a “hard landing,” the economy may be on track for “no landing” at all. In other words, the long-awaited recession may not be looming in our near future—but that also means inflation will not be coming down either.

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stated that he hasn’t “seen what the impacts” of the Federal Reserve rate hikes are, and “All I know is that every month, we’re seeing more and more jobs added

The Department of Labor released an unexpectedly strong jobs report, shifting economists expectation about the the Fed’s next rate hike.

FFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powel revealed the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) brought the prediction down to two rate hikes in 2019 from three in light of the quarter percent rate hike announced Wednesday afternoon.