Speaking at the Thomas Laubach Research Conference in Washington, D.C., Powell highlighted the challenges these shocks pose to both the economy and central banks. The evolving economic environment, ...

Every five years the Federal Reserve reconsiders its framework for monetary policy. This time it will have to consider ...

U.S. Federal Reserve officials feel they need to reconsider the key elements around both jobs and inflation in their current ...

In the wake of the pandemic, long-term interest rates are now much higher than in the 2010s. In part, these higher rates "reflect the possibility that inflation could be volatile going forward than in ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that U.S. central bankers are considering changes to their monetary policy ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that the economy may be entering a period of more volatile inflation and ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday discussed the Fed's framework review, a twice-a-decade look at the central ...

Forthcoming changes to the Federal Reserve’s rate-setting framework are unlikely to influence officials’ current decisions.

Powell said Thursday that longer-term interest rates are likely to be higher as the economy changes and policy is in flux.

With mounting evidence that tight labor markets do not necessarily boost inflation and facing massive job losses in 2020, ...