Plus: A listener asks the editors to guess if the real reason Donald Trump is so passionate about tariffs is because he sees them as a deal-making tool rather than a purely economic instrument.

There's a problem with President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order, and it doesn't take much effort to see it. The Fourteenth Amendment reads, in relevant part: "All persons ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell offered some new assurances Tuesday about payments routed to the central bank from the Treasury Department, his first comments about the fallout resulting from ...

The Federal Reserve kicked off its second Trump era right where it left off: Doing exactly what it wanted to do, ignoring President Donald Trump’s demands that it lower rates. As you’d expect ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday the central bank doesn’t “need to be in a hurry” to resume its interest rate cutting campaign, noting officials reduced the rate ...

He's also worked at U.S. 1, Community News Service and the Middletown Transcript. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he viewed calls to "audit the fed" as a step on the way to eliminate the ...

Borrowers hoping for more financial relief from the Federal Reserve may have a wait on their hands, as the central bank is hit the pause button on additional rate cuts at its Jan. 29 meeting.

The Marriner Eccles Building, headquarters of the Federal Reserve Board, fronts Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., and is a relatively short walk from the West Wing of the White House ...

Inflation picked up at a higher pace than expected in January, leaving the Federal Reserve playing a waiting game to see the impact of tariffs and other policies on price pressures. The Labor ...

Investopedia / Photo Composite by Alice Morgan / Getty Images It would be a huge surprise to financial markets if the Federal Reserve did anything other than hold its interest rate flat when the ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was expected to be grilled by U.S. lawmakers Tuesday about when the central bank will resume its interest rate cutting campaign after pausing last month amid ...

Today, President Trump informed a crowd at Davos that he would mandate the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates—a move that many in the media quickly framed as “setting up a clash with the ...