Global finance looks like a ‘giant Jenga tower’ propped up by a Japanese yen that’s in deep trouble
The first U.S.-Japan joint intervention in three decades aimed at boosting the yen has come and gone without doing much ...
Tag: Federal Reserve
Trump tries again to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, renewing battle over central bank independence
The Trump administration is moving ahead with its efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, two months after the ...
Fed: Kevin Warsh did what Wall Street was expecting, why are bond markets volatile?
In 1993, James Carville, an advisor to President Clinton, mused that if he were reincarnated, he wouldn’t choose to return ...
Kospi index and US stock futures jump as Hormuz talks send oil prices plunging ahead of Fed meeting
Investors were bullish on Sunday evening as the U.S. and Iran continued to halt their attacks on each other, providing ...
Kevin Warsh won’t say if the Fed’s done raising rates, says the Fed has ‘no tolerance’ for inflation
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Tuesday that the Fed will make high inflation “a thing of the past,” yet he provided ...
Fed’s Barkin warns of high inflation, but sees signs of relief
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Tom Barkin warned that inflation is too high, though he sees tentative signs that ...
Fed rate cuts: Payrolls will weaken, inflation will plunge, and Warsh was ‘largely performative’
Wall Street overwhelmingly expects the Federal Reserve to hike rates later this year, but a few contrarians still insist the ...
Kevin Warsh showed that he’s decisively not Trump’s ‘sock puppet’—and markets didn’t like it
Before Kevin Warsh stepped up to the podium Wednesday afternoon, no one really knew which one would show up: the ...
Trump has turned the dollar into a foreign policy tool, a move economists say could backfire
For decades, the U.S. largely held off on approving currency swaps with foreign powers, save for rare circumstances. When it ...
Powell keeps battling Trump without saying his name: ‘Like many other institutions, the Fed has been undergoing a stress test’
Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used one of his first major public appearances since leaving office to defend independent institutions while ...
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