The Federal Reserve’s new chair has set up taskforces that could radically change the way the US central bank operates. But its mandate won’t change.
National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett said Monday that Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is not soliciting advice from the White House on monetary policy. “We’re very close friends,” Hassett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” referring to Warsh. “We’ve known each other for 30 years. … We definitely talk,” he told host Joe Kernen....
The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Federal Reserve holds rates steady at Warsh’s first meeting The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday at Chair Kevin Warsh’s first rate-setting meeting since taking the reins of the central bank. © Jose Luis Magana,...
The broader S&P 500 also dipped 1.2 percent and the Nasdaq fell 1.4 percent
Bank says Elvira Nabiullina is on sick leave but will attend press conference on 19 June
The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.