Elon Musk and Senator Mike Lee have ideas for how to curb the central bank’s power.

Donald Trump’s fans are oddly upset that the Federal Reserve cut interest rates.

A modest effort to enforce capital requirements on financial institutions has fallen by the wayside. We will all pay for this surrender in the next too-big-to-fail bailout.

He’s so terrified the Fed will lower interest rates that he’s ignoring an economic slowdown.

An intriguing new theory says the Fed’s rate hikes have actually boosted economic growth. But is it too brilliant to be right?

The much-vaunted target is stupidly low—and not the most important economic indicator of the moment.

Federal regulators know when banks are teetering. They issue warnings—but little else. And the banks ignore them anyway.

Jay Powell? The Fed? Joe Biden? Congress? The one percent? No, no, no, no—and definitely no.

Before the SVB collapse, Powell was taming inflation without harming the U.S. economy. Now it’s fair to ask whether Biden should fire him.

Here’s what exactly the Fed Reserve rate hike means for you.

More on what exactly the increase in the interest rate means

There’s even a growing possibility we can avoid a recession.

Voters are focused on the problem that’s getting better and tuning out problems like abortion access and Republican extremism that are getting worse.

Politicians warn that we’re headed back to the 1970s. Is the fearmongering just an excuse for punishing interest-rate hikes and a revival of the same pro-business, anti-worker policies that failed us before?

Americans will feel the pain of skyrocketing rates, but so will indebted countries of the global south that are already struggling to withstand global warming–fueled disasters.

The Federal Reserve has only one tool to stem inflation. Congress has many. Why are politicians so reluctant to use them?

Global warming is introducing unprecedented risk into the financial system. The Fed has the power to limit that risk. Instead, Jerome Powell is sitting on his hands.

Covid initially drove wages up, especially for working-class people. But that’s over—another illustration of capital’s dethronement of labor.

In an interview with The New Republic, the Ohio Democrat was keen to remind: “Fifty Republicans voted against the child tax credit twice.”

Sarah Bloom Raskin won’t be joining the central bank, thanks to Joe Manchin and the GOP. But the pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell from Democrats and climate activists will only grow.