Fed Official Defends Independence

Fed's Powell declines to say if he would remain after chair term expires
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday declined to say whether he would remain at the U.S. central bank as a board ...
Hold Up. Fed Chair Powell Just Issued a Dour Warning on the Economy. Is the Bull Market in Trouble?
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was asked for his thoughts on large budget deficits and the rising national debt at his ...
Trump has threatened to fire the chair of the US Federal Reserve. That could be bad news for inflation
Dismissing Jerome Powell would be a serious breach of long-standing norms of central bank independence. That doesn’t mean we ...
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Trump, the Fed, and an almost inevitable showdown over interest rates
The business angle: One nexus of Washington power that won’t see a leadership change is the Federal Reserve, where Jerome ...
Fed chair’s job security depends on embattled Supreme Court precedent
As speculation continues to simmer about whether U.S. President-elect Donald Trump might try to fire Federal Reserve Chair ...
Fed Chair Powell's Speech: Some Takeaways
Here are some of the highlights from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's discussion Thursday in Dallas. “The economy is not sending any signals that we need to be in a hurry to lower rates,” Powell ...
The Federal Reserve as we know it could soon be turned on its head
That’s because, as one former Federal Reserve chair famously said, central bankers’ job is to remove the punchbowl ...
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Richard Clarida on What Comes Next for the Federal Reserve
Last week the Federal Reserve opted to cut interest rates by 25 basis points ... At the same time, Trump has had vocal ...
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The Federal Reserve made a rate cut decision today. Here's the impact on your money.
The Federal Reserve on Thursday made its second rate cut of this year ... At a Thursday press conference to discuss the ...
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Fed Chair calls US the best-performing major economy in the world
The recent performance of the US economy has been "the best of any major economy in the world," Federal Reserve Chair Jerome ...