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Trump came into office promising to “end inflation.” Three months in, he declared he’d “already solved” it. And yet the new consumer price index report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests, as ...
Economists broadly expect inflation to remain well above the central bank’s 2 percent target through the end of the year.
A key report Tuesday is expected to show that the rate of inflation increased in July, a potential indication that President ...
In a recent exchange, Mark Paoletta, Chief Legal Officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), defended the ...
The Fed uses interest rates as the benchmark tool to maintain both sides of its mandate. But there is tension between the two ...
The White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve, the second federal forest reserve to be created, came into existence in 1891 and ...
Donald Trump’s pick of Stephen Miran for Federal Reserve governor is attracting attention beyond his image as someone who ...
"The main threat to the Fed independence is not politically motivated turnover shifting the outcome of votes." ...
Letters to the Editor about Trump and Epstein, Richland schools budget, PNNL retirement cuts and the Israel-Hamas war.
Donald Trump’s desire to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve is unlikely to alter Fed decision making or ...
Miran, an architect of Trump’s tariff policy, would be a temporary fix. He’d serve the remainder of outgoing Fed Gov. Adriana ...
The appointment gives President Trump a potentially more direct route to pursue his desire for easier monetary policy and ...