History doesn’t bode well for stocks in the months ahead. In post-US presidential election years over the past seven decades, ...

Jerome H. Powell stressed in his first meeting since the president returned to the White House that policy decisions would be ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell and President Trump met Thursday to discuss economic growth, employment and inflation.

President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the two discussed the economy but not Powell’s ...

As of May 18, 2025, the U.S. national debt stood at $36.8 trillion, about $108,000 per citizen or $323,000 per taxpayer. That total equals nearly 123% of America’s GDP, a sharp contrast to the 34.6% ...

What if the guiding narrative of 2,000 years of human history was a slow march toward the worship of money? A new book by ...

Don't end the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without eliminating the implicit government backing for their ...

The “debt order” is back, warns French sociologist Benjamin Lemoine. In 2024, the European Commission formally reimposed fiscal deficit guidelines on European Union member states, although important ...

Officials at the Federal Reserve have adopted a wait-and-see approach to policy moves amid extreme uncertainty about the ...

U.S. Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting acknowledged they could face "difficult tradeoffs" in coming months in ...

The Federal Reserve has emerged as the 800-pound gorilla in the legal fight over President Trump’s firings of agency leaders traditionally independent from the White House. The Supreme ...

The House G.O.P.’s Trump-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes a reckless three-trillion-dollar gamble with America’s ...