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If the president had gotten his way, inflation would surely be rocketing again, the economy would be overheating and the Fed ...

The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates again at its final meeting of the year, signaling that Chair Jerome Powell was able to guide his deeply divided committee toward a consensus over how to ...

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President Trump blames the country's high home prices on one of his frequent targets: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Trump argues that the Fed, which sets interest rates that help determine ...

Most readers are probably familiar with the basic math behind interest rates and bond prices: When interest rates go up, bond prices go down. As the market recalibrates what a bond’s future cash flows ...