A proposal from two top nominees would let the president fire board members at will, and give Congress budget authority.

The Fed’s top bank cop, Michael Barr, is stepping down early to avoid a legal battle with Trump. If the Federal Reserve is politicized and weakened, the winners will be large financial institutions ...

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates have gone up recently, and sticky inflation this year could ...

U.S. investors pulled out of equity funds and moved to the safety of money market funds in the week to Jan. 8 driven by ...

U.S. inflation data in the coming week could test the nerves of stock investors and further inflame worries about rising ...

One major reason attributed to President-elect Donald Trump's winning of the 2024 election is that voters remained unhappy ...

Rumors of the labor market’s imminent decline have been greatly exaggerated for some time. Barring an act of God over the next 10 days, Donald Trump will inherit a healthy domestic economy from Joe ...

Bond yields are hitting levels that signal markets are concerned that, even if the economy continues to grow, it could lead ...

As Olivier noted in this space yesterday, Trump this week did acknowledge it may be “hard” to bring prices down, though he ...

President-elect Trump says interest rates are far too high, but his own economic agenda might play a key role in keeping them ...

There’s debate over what level in the 10-year yield would be especially problematic for stocks, with consensus coalescing ...

Over the past few years, the economy and the job market have shown surprising resilience. Responding to inflation that hit a ...