The current federal funds rate sits at 5.25–5.50%, held steady by the Fed to combat inflation and avoid overheating the ...

A Fed policy rate that low is not typically a sign that the U.S. is the "hottest" country in the world for investment, as ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell is resisting President Donald Trump’s calls for lower interest rates, saying the Fed ...

Trump hopes to get lower rates by replacing Fed Chair Jerome Powell with someone who would do what the president wants. But ...

President Trump says Fed rate cuts would save the government as much as $900 billion a year in interest payments on its debt.

A Fed policy rate that low is not typically a sign that the U.S. is the "hottest" country in the world for investment, as ...

As long as the economy is in solid shape, we think the prudent thing to do is to wait and see what those effects might be." ...

President Donald Trump says he has finally found a way to achieve his goal of removing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, ...

President Donald Trump wrote a note to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, once again urging him to cut interest rates.

The acceleration in the CPI reading is bad news for President Donald Trump, who is pushing for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and stimulate the economy. The Fed's Board of Governors has so ...

NPR speaks with David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about Trump's attacks on the Fed chair for not moving to cut interest rates.

President Trump escalates pressure on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates by targeting the Federal ...