Good to Know: The Federal Reserve and U.S. monetary policy Alexandra Guisinger - January 15, 2024 The Fed is getting some good press. So what exactly is the Fed, and what does it do?
Biden reappointed Republican Jerome Powell to head the Fed. Why didn’t he pick a Democrat? Mark Spindel and Sarah Binder - November 23, 2021 Yes, Biden praises bipartisanship. But reappointing Powell also offers the White House some advantages.
Debt ceiling battles may hurt the U.S. dollar Stephen B. Kaplan - October 16, 2021 While China is patiently building up credibility, America is spending it down.
U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods didn’t bring companies back to the U.S., new research finds Samantha A. Vortherms and Jiakun Zhang - September 22, 2021 These tariffs instead resulted in collateral damage to the U.S. economy
Biden told big multinational corporations to “get real” about paying taxes. Here’s what he plans to do Todd N. Tucker - April 5, 2021 Businesses have declared ‘all-out war’ on the Biden tax agenda
Janet Yellen will be the first female treasury secretary in U.S. Why are so few women in top economic posts? Ha Eun Choi, Cristina Bodea, and Andrew Kerner - February 9, 2021 Here’s why the coronavirus pandemic might change that
Biden will have more women in his Cabinet than any president ever. Other countries still do better. Susan Franceschet and Karen Beckwith - January 15, 2021 Most cabinets have a “concrete floor” for gender representation, and rarely go lower. Will Biden raise that floor in the U.S.?
Trump is again criticizing the Fed. Could that hurt the U.S. credit rating? Cristina Bodea and Raymond Hicks - March 25, 2019 Countries pay an economic cost when politicians interfere with their central banks.
The Fed’s next big appointment will probably be another white man. Here’s why it struggles to diversify its leadership. Mark Spindel and Sarah Binder - March 27, 2018 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will soon anoint its
Exactly how male-dominated are central banks? Here are the numbers. Tara Iseneker and Cristina Bodea - December 8, 2017 At the beginning of November, President Trump decided to replace