President Donald Trump this week said he had discussed with a group of Republican lawmakers the possibility of firing Federal ...

“It’s by now widely agreed, almost all over the world: If you leave monetary policy in political hands, you’ll get too much inflation,” Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

President Donald Trump said last week that he will announce his pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell “very soon.” The problem is that Powell still has 11 months left until the end of ...

Low rates can also inflate financial markets. Investors, unable to generate strong returns in safe assets, such as short-term Treasury notes, will move into progressively higher-risk assets, where ...

Low rates can also inflate financial markets. Investors, unable to generate strong returns in safe assets, such as short-term Treasury notes, will move into progressively higher-risk assets, where ...

Private employers lost more jobs than they added for the first time in more than two years, as new data shows Americans ...

Star Sports political betting analyst William Kedjanyi told Newsweek: "Donald Trump has been harassing Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, for months and months over interest rates. Trump ...

President Donald Trump denied reports he was planning to fire Jerome Powell. Can he even do that legally? Who nominated the ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is under fire from the White House, which accuses him of bungling a renovation of the Fed's HQ and has suggested it could be cause to fire him.

Trump and White House allies have intensified pressure on Powell, urging the Fed to cut its key interest rate through a multi ...

Fed governors, including the chair, are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. But members of the FOMC decide who is chair of the rate-setting committee, which is comprised of the ...