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  • Trump delivers remarks to federal, state and local law enforcement officials in Brentwood, New York

    Will Trump Try to ‘Overrule’ Monetary Policy?

    By Mark Thoma

    How will the Federal Reserve evolve during Donald Trump’s term as president? Presently, three of the seven positions on the Federal Reserve Board are vacant. These vacancies, along with the...

  • Why the Treasury Is Ending a Low-Income Retirement Saving Program

    By Beth Braverman

    Less than two years after the Obama administration rolled out a myRA, a savings program aimed at helping the millions of Americans without access to a retirement account through work, the Trump...

  • A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York

    Will Janet Yellen Give Wall Street a Scare?

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    For years, the Federal Reserve has been unable to convince the market it's serious about aggressively tightening policy. Janet Yellen and her cohorts have been guilty of "crying wolf," constantly...

  • Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference after a two-day Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) policy meeting, in Washington, U.S., September 20, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

    Is the Fed About to Wage War on the Rich?

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    For years, stocks have been driven relentlessly higher thanks to a single statement that summarized the aggressive central bank largesse since the eurozone crisis flared up in 2012: Policymakers...

  • A trader looks at a screen that charts the S&P 500 on the floor in New York

    Is the Fed Fighting the Trump Rally?

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    The evidence is growing that the Federal Reserve’s policymakers are actively working to lean against the stock market's rise, a dramatic reversal from the years of policy support stock market bulls...

  • FILE PHOTO - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies on the U.S. economic outlook, before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

    The Fed’s Big Mistake: Rate Hikes Hurt US Workers

    By David Dayen

    Protesters rallied in Washington, New York City and Philadelphia yesterday against an imminent government action that would damage the financial prospects of ordinary workers. And no, it had nothing...

  • U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Yellen holds news conference following FOMC meeting in Washington

    The Fed, the Reality of Tax Cuts, and Donald Trump

    By Mark Thoma

    For many years, Republicans argued that tax cuts for the wealthy pay for themselves. Cutting taxes on the wealthy, according to Republicans, allows them to keep a larger share of anything new they...

  • Bull

    Will Unwinding the Fed’s $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet Kill the Bull Market?

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    Over the last decade, investors have grown accustomed to a Federal Reserve that constantly coddled them, allayed their fears and did everything possible to support the financial markets and asset...

  • The Key to This Market: Here’s What Will Determine if Stocks Rise or Fall

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    For now, instead of putting pressure on risk assets, the Fed's newfound hawkishness is bolstering the reflation trade by lifting the dollar higher and attracting global capital into U.S. assets. Same...

  • Can Wall Street Handle Higher Interest Rates?

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates for the second time in three months, signaling a dramatic quickening of its prior pace. For the first time in more than a decade, Fed policymakers are...

  • Why Market Insiders Are Bracing for Weakness and Volatility

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    The stock market’s recent exuberance sets the stage for some serious disappointment from higher interest rates, perhaps as soon as two weeks from now.

  • US President Trump Addresses Joint Session of Congress

    Why Trump Shouldn’t Be So Worried About the Trade Deficit

    By Rob Garver

    Folks at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are trying to help President Trump understand trade deficits.

  • Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speak before Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the “Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Capi

    If Trump Stacks Its Board, He Politicizes the Fed and Demeans Its Independence

    By Mark Thoma

    Daniel Tarullo announced on Friday that he is resigning from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in early April, nearly five years before his term expires on January 31, 2022. Governor Tarullo,...

  • Trump Has a Chance to Remake the Federal Reserve

    By Rob Garver

    The Fed’s governing board of seven members tends to turn over relatively slowly, but President Trump took office with two empty seats on the board, and the announcement Friday that Daniel Tarullo is...

  • Janet Yellen

    In the Trump Administration, Credibility May be a Problem

    By Mark Thoma

    As a department chair at a university, you learn that a promise from the Dean or anyone else in the administration is good for about five years. That’s approximately how long Deans last, on average,...

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