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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Teachers Union reached agreement on a deal sure to send Chicago over the cliff.

...greatest economy ever?

The Federal Reserve may be hinting at a pause in its policy easing, but Braizinha at Bank of America Corp. sees a risk that yields on some Treasuries will go negative by 2021 as the U.S. central bank cuts rates all the way to zero.While that may seem like a remote scenario to some

There is a huge amount of geopolitical uncertainty in the world, with some regions in worsening crisis...

When Mario Draghi ended his term as European Central Bank president last week with a call for government policies to be “mutually aligned” with those of his institution...

Deutsche Bank AG will pass on negative interest rates only to larger corporate customers or the deposits of wealthy individuals and spare most retail clients,...

On Yet Another "US-China Trade Deal Close" Headline

The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 closed on record highs Friday after a stronger than expected jobs report. But in his podcast, Peter Schiff said that the stock markets aren't surging because of a great economy. They're surging because of bad monetary policy.

A Texas academic created a stir last year by alleging that Bitcoin’s astronomical surge in 2017 was probably triggered by manipulation. He’s now doubling down with a striking new claim: a single market whale was likely behind the misconduct, seemingly with the power to move prices at will.

Kashkari said he wouldn't be looking to cut rates, but he added that the Fed can be patient now until there are stronger signs of wage growth and until some important economic headwinds such as the trade war and Brexit pass.

Last week, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third time. And the Fed isn't alone. A majority of the world's central banks have slashed rates this year. A World Gold Council report says this new regime of easy monetary policy will likely push bond yields down even lower, making gold a more attractive portfolio diversifier.
As negative yielding debt increases alongside stock-to-yield valuations to all-time highs, gold may become an attractive and more effective diversifier than bonds, justifying a higher portfolio allocation than historical performance suggests."

Euro zone countries should be allowed to stop using the single currency over the coming decades, the Hungarian central bank governor has argued in an article for the Financial Times.

Federal Reserve policy makers are satisfied with the stance of monetary policy even if President Donald Trump isn’t.In a series of appearances last week, central...

Yardeni Research's Edward Yardeni is concerned stocks are running too far, too fast.

Treasury 10-year yields may surge while stocks grind higher over the next six months after the Federal Reserve’s third interest-rate cut, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.The market reaction to the Fed’s “insurance” rate cuts has been most akin to a similar path taken in the mid-1990s,

A concentrated burst of interest rate cutting and other measures to loosen global financial conditions by the world’s central bankers looks to have largely run its course, and policymakers now appear content to wait and see if their handiwork staves off a deeper slowdown in the months ahead.

Today we live in a bifurcated economy: it is boom times for some and bust times for others. Your personal situation depends largely on how close you fall on the socioeconomic spectrum to the protected elite class, towards which the central banks are directing their money-printing firehoses.

Christine Lagarde was to kick off her first week as European Central Bank chief with a closely-watched speech in Berlin later on Monday, where she will face a German audience fiercely critical of the bank's easy money policies.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash has been shipped from Russia to Venezuela, providing a lifeline to the South American country as U.S. sanctions limit its access to the global financial system.A total of $315 million of U.S. dollar and euro notes were sent in six separate shipments

Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party threw their shoes at Boris Johnson and the Tories in their election kick off event. Will it work out for Brexit?