By the fall, all federal departments and agencies will phase out the use of paper checks and switch to electronic payments, ...

With that turbulence as a backdrop, the cryptocurrency industry hoped Thursday's executive order establishing a federal Bitcoin reserve would at least spur a surge in the blockchain ecosystem.

President Trump‘s recent assertions that the Fed should lower the discount rate puts him squarely in the middle of Fed ...

The main news from last week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting was the escalating war of words between Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and President Trump. But while the two of them ...

Martin and the six other governors of the Federal Reserve manipulate the levers that control the nation’s money supply and interest rates. Today, as a result of their actions, money is tight and ...

This is known as quantitative easing (QE)—the direct purchase of assets by the Federal Reserve to inject more money into the economy and expand the money supply. The Fed has used quantitative ...

But some see a silver lining. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said President Trump's tariffs are likely to cause inflation to rise at least temporarily, though the extent and duration is unclear.

In justifying its decision to keep the federal funds rate steady at a range of 4.25% to 4.50% after its March meeting, the Federal Reserve cited ... and December in order to buttress the nation ...

They also determine how much it costs companies to borrow money to finance operations. When interest rates are higher, consumers tend to spend less. It's for this reason that the Federal Reserve ...

With people calling for an audit of the US gold stores at Fort Knox, perhaps we should remember how that gold got there in ...

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