Japan's battle against deflation will turn into a battle against inflation.
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said Thursday that he would be disturbed if inflation ran at a 2.3% annual rate “for several years.”
Regular readers may have noticed me slowly losing confidence in the economy. Your impression is correct and there’s a good reason for it, as I will explain today. The facts have changed so my conclusions are changing, too.
SD Outlook: Looks like it's back to business for the economy & the markets. Great news for those who need a little extra time to prepare for the collapse...
Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Monday that he'd be comfortable leaving interest rates alone until autumn 2020.
There are no extreme "fixes" to secular declines in sales, profits, employment, tax revenues and asset prices.
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that actions by the U.S. Federal Reserve have nicked U.S. economic growth and stock market gains by perhaps 30 percent, and that it should begin pumping money into the economy as it did during the 2007-2009 recession.
President Trump is struggling to win his fight to reshape the Federal Reserve with Republicans rebelling over a potential nominee and the bank's chairman resisting calls to cut interest rates.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi expressed concern on Saturday about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s independence, warning that a loss of its autonomy could undermine the credibility of policy.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday the central bank was ready...
How Jerome H. Powell handles the next few months will be a critical test of his leadership skills, as he tries to guide the bank through a highly uncertain moment in the global economy.
Former Federal Reserve officials and foreign central bankers say President Trump’s combative stance toward the U.S. central bank could over time weaken the institution and its role in the global economy.
In his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff talked about recent Congressional hearings that featured Rep. Maxine Waters scolding bankers for creating the student debt crisis, ignoring the fact that the student loan program was nationalized a decade ago.Peter described it as the political theater of the absurd.
As President Donald Trump keeps up his attacks on the Federal Reserve's policies, Wall Street is cautiously embracing them.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Saturday accountability, transparency and effective communication were key components for central banks to be credible in delivering their mandates.
Regular readers of this website are well aware that the despite the ongoing parade of sound bytes in the media to convince us that all is fine, the macroeconomic situation is grim and deteriorating fast.
The federal government spent $2,198,468,000,000 in the first six months of fiscal 2019 (October through March), which is the most it has spent in the first six months of any fiscal year in the last decade, according to the Monthly Treasury Statements.
"Can a politicized Fed be relied on to do what it did in 2008, when it was lender of last resort for the world?
Economist Steve Keen believes the greenback could lose its reserve status within ten years. But it wouldn't be as big of a problem as many economists fear.
The world's largest primary silver producer reported a plunge in production in the first quarter of the year, continuing a global trend of declining silver output.Total silver production at Fresnillo PLC dropped by 15% in Q1. The company blamed falling mine output on lower ore grades and reduced volume of processed ore.