Concerns about the Federal Reserve’s independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Donald Trump, including this week’s decision to…
As U.S. debt burgeons and the White House leans on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, people are beginning…
“The Legend of Rip Van Powell,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator on Aug. 4, 2025.
Since President Trump took occupancy of the Oval Office for the second time this past January, one question that has…
Last week, Donald Trump volunteered that he would not reappoint Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve. This seems…
I have heard some people say that the Federal Reserve has a credibility problem. The agency missed the biggest inflation…
Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis By Jeanna Smialek Alfred A. Knopf, 374 pages, $30…
The nation needs the Congressional investigations, but they are, I caution again, predictably un-strategic, even awkward. Republicans stupidly sold the…
The Federal Reserve raised its funds rate on Wednesday by a quarter percent. The 4.5–4.75 percent rate amounts to the…
