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Federal Reserve Board
the money game
Oct. 13, 2022
The Reporter Who Knows What Jerome Powell Is Thinking Or, at least, that is Nick Timiraos’s reputation in a world where everyone is watching the Fed.
By Jen Wieczner
the money game
June 15, 2022
It Could Be Years Before America’s Inflation Problem Is Under Control The Federal Reserve just raised rates by the most in 28 years, but its power to tame spiraling prices is limited.
By Kevin T. Dugan
The Economy Is Booming. Why Do Many Americans Think We’re in a Recession? Polling suggests people think recession just means economic trouble. They could get a refresher if the Fed hikes interest rates to combat inflation.
By Ed Kilgore
the money game
Jan. 11, 2022
This Year’s Economy Will Come Down to Wednesday’s Inflation Report One way or another, we’re at the beginning of the end stages of the pandemic-era financial and monetary policies.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Nov. 16, 2021
How Joe Biden Is Deciding Who Will Lead the Federal Reserve Will he replace Jerome Powell with Lael Brainard, the candidate favored by AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and others?
By Kevin T. Dugan
jerome powell
Mar. 18, 2021
Fed to Biden: The Money Printer’s Still Got Plenty of Ink Jerome Powell applauded Congress’s new stimulus package Wednesday, while encouraging it to take further action on “the investment front.”
By Eric Levitz
coronavirus stimulus
Feb. 11, 2021
The Fed Gives Democrats the Green Light on Large Stimulus The central bank is worried about Congress stimulating the economy too little, not too much.
By Eric Levitz
Republicans Remember to Care About the Deficit at the Worst Possible Moment After taking a few years off, Republican austerity warriors are trying to shrink the stimulus bill at the last possible moment and hamstring Biden.
By Ed Kilgore
federal reserve
Apr. 22, 2019
Trump Finally Pulls Plug on Cain for Fed Cain pushed back against Senate hostility to his Fed ambitions, but his baggage proved to be all too much.
By Ed Kilgore
federal reserve board
Apr. 12, 2019
Herman Cain’s Fed Nomination Likely Over Before Trump Even Made It With four GOP senators opposed to Herman Cain, who’s yet to be formally nominated, Trump may focus on his other bad idea for the Fed, Stephen Moore.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Bashes Fed for Interest Rate Policy He Once Supported He really does not seem to understand that presidents are supposed to shut up about the independent Fed’s policies.
By Ed Kilgore
Latest Jobs Report Is a ‘Dream’ for Wall Street Strong employment growth and low wage growth is just what the doctor ordered for stocks. But a possible trade war still looms.
By Ed Kilgore
The 3 Claims Republicans Are Making About Their Tax Bill’s Effects Some of the good things tax cuts produce are ephemeral; others could backfire.
By Ed Kilgore
Good Economic News Triggers Stock-Market Plunge Trump, like his predecessors, is learning that good economic news sometimes quickly produces the opposite.
By Ed Kilgore
Federal Reserve Raises Rates, Gives Sunny Economic Forecast for 2018 The central bank expects growth to be higher, and unemployment lower, next year than it is already.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Just Handed the Keys to Our Economy to a Sensible Centrist — Probably Meet Jerome Powell, the new Federal Reserve chair. His economic views are largely unknown.
By Eric Levitz
July Jobs Report: 2017 Looking Exactly Like 2016 It’s becoming monotonous to report, but it’s true: the slow but steady recovery continues, which could help Trump stabilize his shaky popularity.
By Ed Kilgore
The U.S. Economy Doesn’t Care Who’s President In June, there were an impressive 222,000 new jobs created. How much does Trump’s agenda have to do with it?
By Ed Kilgore
Fed Raises Interest Rates As Quietly As Possible In one of Washington’s strangest rituals, Fed Chair Janet Yellen tried to announce an interest-rate hike without raising any eyebrows.
By Ed Kilgore
Is It Trump’s Economy Yet? In January, 227,000 jobs were created. It is of more than passing political importance whether the 44th or 45th president gets credit or blame.
By Ed Kilgore
All Quiet on the Economic Front, Which Is Good News for Clinton With a positive but ho-hum August jobs report, the odds of some election-disrupting economic news occurring before Election Day are low.
By Ed Kilgore