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Jerome Powell
the money game
July 5, 2024
Jerome Powell Is Running Out of Reasons to Hold Interest Rates So High Wall Street is betting on a September rate cut. Is the Fed chair listening this time?
the money game
June 12, 2024
The Economy Is Finally Becoming … Normal? Inflation is falling, wages are rising, and the Federal Reserve is fixing to cut interest rates twice by 2025.
the national interest
Apr. 26, 2024
Trump Second-Term Plan Includes Federal Reserve Coup The next Trump administration will be far more chaotic.
the money game
Jan. 31, 2024
year in review
Dec. 28, 2023
The Wackiest Political Stories of 2023 From Lauren Boebert’s steamy Beetlejuice date to Ron DeSantis’s pudding fingers, U.S. politics had another bizarre trip around the sun.
the money game
Aug. 24, 2023
Jerome Powell Might Have Avoided a Recession. How Is a Mystery. “He helped steer us towards this nirvana of the soft landing.” Just don’t ask any questions.
the money game
May 10, 2023
5 Things to Know About the Best Inflation Report in a Long Time The good news and the bad news from front lines of the war against high prices.
jerome powell
Apr. 27, 2023
Jerome Powell Got Punked by Russian Prank Callers The Fed chair thought he was talking to Zelenskyy — and gave unusually direct answers to big questions about the economy and interest rates.
jerome powell
Apr. 14, 2023
Are We on the Edge of a Recession? The Federal Reserve thinks the economy is months away from slipping into a downturn. There are definitely reasons to worry.
Jerome Powell Will Not Be Stopped It’s been a year since the Federal Reserve started hiking interest rates, and there’s no reason for it to turn back now.
the money game
Jan. 31, 2023
Jerome Powell’s Crazy Balancing Act The Fed chairman faces a big decision with the world watching. No one said his job would be easy.
the economy
Jan. 15, 2023
Why There (Probably) Won’t Be a Recession This Year A conversation with macroeconomic analyst Jon Turek.
the economy
Dec. 16, 2022
How Bad Is the Economy Going to Get? The case for (and against) expecting a bad recession in 2023.
the money game
Dec. 14, 2022
Jerome Powell Needs You to Stop Asking for a Raise Now, Thank You Ask not what the economy can do for you — ask what you can do for the economy.
the money game
Dec. 1, 2022
Why The Economy Is Starting To Feel Good All Of A Sudden The Federal Reserve looks ready to ease up on throttling the economy. Have we averted disaster?
the money game
Nov. 2, 2022
Is Wall Street Finally Listening to Jerome Powell? The Federal Reserve Chair has struggled to get his message across, but now it appears he’s made himself clear
the money game
Oct. 13, 2022
The Reporter Who Knows What Jerome Powell Is Thinking Or, at least, that is Nick Timiraos’s reputation in a world where everyone is watching the Fed.
the money game
Oct. 10, 2022
The Next Recession Might Be Manufactured The pain the Federal Reserve is inflicting around the world could hit Americans next.
the money game
Sept. 13, 2022
How Rising Rents Crashed the Stock Market Tuesday’s decline in stocks was the largest in more than two years. A steep rise in housing inflation was a big reason.
the money game
Aug. 26, 2022
Inflation Is Slowing, But More Pain Is Coming The Federal Reserve is trying to show that it has the wherewithal to right the economy without blowing it up.
the money game
June 15, 2022
It Could Be Years Before America’s Inflation Problem Is Under Control The Federal Reserve just raised rates by the most in 28 years, but its power to tame spiraling prices is limited.
the money game
May 4, 2022
The Fed Just Raised the Odds of a Recession Inflation pushed the economy into a corner, but Wall Street might just come out as a winner.
the money game
Apr. 7, 2022
Warning: Recession Ahead The Fed made the economy weird, and now no one knows exactly when it’s going to crash.
The Pandemic Economy Is Officially Over You can blame inflation for paying more in interest fees, which are probably only going to get bigger
the money game
Mar. 15, 2022
‘Buy the Dip’ Goes Bust From Wall Street to r/WallStreetBets, traders find their pandemic strategy doesn’t work anymore.
The Season of High Prices Has No End in Sight Omicron kept people at home, and inflation followed them there.
the federal reserve
Jan. 26, 2022
Fed to Markets: The Prices Are Too Damn High Jerome Powell told markets what they expected to hear Wednesday, albeit in a slightly more hawkish tone than some anticipated.
the money game
Jan. 12, 2022
5 Things to Know About This Red-Hot Inflation Number The Consumer Price Index rose 7 percent — the highest in four decades. Here are some real-world implications.
the money game
Jan. 11, 2022
This Year’s Economy Will Come Down to Wednesday’s Inflation Report One way or another, we’re at the beginning of the end stages of the pandemic-era financial and monetary policies.
the money game
Jan. 10, 2022
Washington, D.C., Has an Insider-Trading Problem Why are Fed governors trading as they move markets? Why is Nancy Pelosi speculating on Tesla shares?
the money game
Dec. 15, 2021
The Federal Reserve Just Declared War Against Inflation You might not know what “tapering” means — but it is Jerome Powell’s main tool to fight higher prices.
the national interest
Dec. 2, 2021
the money game
Nov. 16, 2021
How Joe Biden Is Deciding Who Will Lead the Federal Reserve Will he replace Jerome Powell with Lael Brainard, the candidate favored by AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and others?
the federal reserve
Sept. 13, 2021
The Big Problem With the Left’s Case Against Jerome Powell One can imagine an aggressively anti-carbon Fed chair. But the U.S. Senate will not confirm one.
America’s Inflation Debate Is Fundamentally Confused To raise real wages and lower Americans’ cost of living, we need to inject more demand into the economy, not less, economist J.W. Mason argues.
jerome powell
Mar. 18, 2021
Fed to Biden: The Money Printer’s Still Got Plenty of Ink Jerome Powell applauded Congress’s new stimulus package Wednesday, while encouraging it to take further action on “the investment front.”
coronavirus stimulus
Feb. 11, 2021
The Fed Gives Democrats the Green Light on Large Stimulus The central bank is worried about Congress stimulating the economy too little, not too much.
the top line
Oct. 27, 2020
The World’s Best Bureaucrat As chairman of the Federal Reserve during the pandemic, Jerome Powell has managed to do something almost unimaginable in Washington: a good job.
coranvirus stimulus
Oct. 6, 2020
Trump Pulls Plug on Stimulus Talks, Promises COVID Relief ‘After I Win’ In an inscrutable decision, Trump flushed prospects for a second stimulus check and a boost to the economy — quite possibly until late January.
federal reserve
Aug. 27, 2020
In Historic Move, Fed Will No Longer Kill Jobs to Fight Phantom Inflation For decades, the central bank has deliberately slowed growth whenever unemployment got “too low.” Jerome Powell says that era is over.
White House: Stocks Are Plunging Because Jerome Powell Doesn’t Smile Multiple Trump advisers have blamed the markets’ jitters on the Fed chair’s poor “bedside manner.”
the federal reserve
May 13, 2020
Why Trump Might Be Right About Negative Interest Rates The Federal Reserve opposes the radical stimulus policy. But it might be necessary to promote recovery.
the top line
Mar. 15, 2020
The Federal Reserve Cut Rates to Zero, But Markets Aren’t That Impressed There are problems Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve can solve – and problems they cannot solve.
the top line
Aug. 27, 2019
The Federal Reserve Should Not Be Part of the #Resistance Former New York Federal Reserve Bank president Bill Dudley is making a very unwise argument about Trump and the Fed.
the top line
Aug. 14, 2019
Here’s What the ‘CRAZY INVERTED YIELD CURVE’ Means for You An unusual configuration of bond yields is not proof that we’re going into a recession. But there’s a reason the stock market is spooked.
the top line
Aug. 2, 2019
Trump Can Trade-War His Way to Interest-Rate Cuts — Even Though It’s Stupid It’s simple: When the president does things that hurt the economy, that gives Jerome Powell & Co. more room to cut rates.
the top line
July 31, 2019
The Fed May Have Had No Choice But to Confuse Us All Jerome Powell faces an interesting challenge: how be clear about his intentions, even as he’s improvising to clean up Trump’s messes.
the top line
June 21, 2019
Here’s Who Trump Should Have Made Fed Chairman Neel Kashkari, like Trump, thinks the Fed should cut interest rates. The problem is that those beliefs stem from principle, not politics.
the economy
June 19, 2019
Fed Chair Powell Says He’s Not Going Anywhere, But the Fed’s Moving Toward Trump U.S. Fed chairman Jerome Powell says he intends to serve his term, but the Fed appears to be ready to cut interest rates.
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