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President Trump’s Tariffs Complicate the Fed’s Next Move
On Monday, stocks slipped across the board after Trump announced a sweeping new round of tariffs on imports from South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos and Myanmar. According to ...
Federal Mortgage Regulator Bill Pulte Calls on Congress To Investigate Fed Chair Powell
Bill Pulte, the nation's top mortgage regulator, has called for a congressional investigation into Federal Reserve Chair ...
Jerome Powell is competing to be the worst Fed chair in history
By stubbornly refusing to lower interest rates despite ample data urging him to do so, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is ...
Powell confirms that the Fed would have cut by now were it not for tariffs
The U.S. central bank would likely have begun cutting interest rates again if not for the levy plan, the Fed chief said.
Fed Chair Powell confirms tariff concerns prevented interest rate cuts so far this year
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said tariff concerns delayed interest rate cuts, stating the central bank would have likely reduced ...
Powell reiterates Fed will wait for more data before cutting rates
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday reiterated the U.S. central bank plans to "wait and learn more" about the ...
As Trump ramps up attacks on the Federal Reserve, Chair Powell refuses to change course
“The board just sits there and watches, so they are equally to blame,” Trump said. The attack on the board ratchets up ...
Why questions about the reliability of federal economic data have become unavoidable
Can Americans trust economic data from the Trump administration? Broadly speaking, there are two angles to this that are ...