President-elect says he has no plans to ask or order Powell to step down, in spite of past criticism of the monetary body
President Joe Biden is only a few weeks away from the end of his time in office, and one key part of his legacy is undeniable: inflation. Biden has battled inflation from the start, but critics say he helped fuel it with trillions of dollars in deficit spending during his four years in office.
November's inflation report showed a moderate 2.7% annual increase, which may give the Federal Reserve reason to continue cutting interest rates.
he US Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce a quarter point cut to its key lending rate on Wednesday despite a recent uptick in inflation, in the central bank's last meeting of Joe Biden's presidency. The Fed is also tipped to signal a slower path ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday announced a 0.25% reduction in the Fed's lending rate, but the Dow posted a 10th straight day of losses.
The Personal Consumption Expenditures index climbed by 0.1% in November on a month-over-month basis, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said in a statement Friday.
The American economy grew at a healthy 3.1% annual clip from July through September, propelled by vigorous consumer spending and an uptick in exports, the government said in an upgrade to its previous estimate.
There's a good reason Biden eventually stopped saying Bidenomics. Americans didn't like the results of his economic policies.
One metric to watch in the CPI data is the year-over-year core CPI, which will play a key role in the outlook for Federal Reserve interest-rate policy, said Brett Kenwell, U.S. investment analyst at e Toro.
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce a quarter point cut to its key lending rate on Wednesday despite a recent uptick in inflation, in the central bank's last meeting of Joe Biden's presidency.
The moderate growth will likely encourage the Federal Reserve to continue cutting high interest rates at its meeting next week. The news comes as President Joe Biden touts lower inflation ...
Now that pollsters are declaring President Joe Biden a “failure,” historians will reckon with too many economic signals rendering the prevailing narrative little more than media noise.