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In The Motley Fool's Latest Research, Core Inflation Is at 2.9% -- Here's Why Investors Should Pay Attention to This Important Number
Along with weakening employment data and uncertainty from new tariffs, the latest inflation number puts the Federal Reserve ...
Why won’t the Fed cut rates in July? Its favorite inflation gauge is telling it not to.
The inflation gauge the Federal Reserve relies on most to decide whether to raise or lower U.S. interest rates is likely to ...
Gasparino: Jerome Powell Has Been A Horrendous Fed Chair, He Missed Inflation And Allowed So Much Printing Of Money
On 'Will Cain Show' Charlie Gasparino criticized Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chairman: LAWRENCE JONES: And there we have ...
Inflation accelerated in June as the Fed weighs the impact of tariffs in rate cut timing
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index (CPI), a popular inflation gauge, increased in June to ...
Fed chair Jerome Powell disputes Trump on renovation costs | Morning in America
During a face-to-face meeting at the Federal Reserve on Thursday, President Donald Trump continued to apply pressure on Fed ...
As Trump rails against Fed Chair Powell, here’s why Federal Reserve independence is essential
The Federal Reserve, established over a century ago, has managed its dual mandate admirably, economist Mark Zandi writes, by ...
Fed's inflation fears start to be realized with June CPI increase
Rising prices across an array of goods from coffee to audio equipment to home furnishings pulled inflation higher.
What CEOs Say About President Trump and Fed Chair Powell
Top opinion-shapers and decision-makers are expressing mixed views on the evolving conflict between the White House and the ...
What Did Trump’s Hard-Hat Tour of the Fed Accomplish?
The president wanted to take Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, to task over the cost of renovations to the central bank’s ...
Japan’s Inflation Surge Is Now A Political Crisis
On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...
Meddling With the Fed Could Backfire on Trump
Slashing government interest rates could have the paradoxical effect of raising the interest rates paid in the real world.