It is becoming clear what the major challenge will be for Jerome Powell's successor: maintaining the Fed's independence while ...

Four potential Powell replacements have been shortlisted by the betting market. Here's who's in the running to be the next ...

President Trump is pressuring Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and investors are betting on who might replace him. Recently, ...

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett drew laughter from a roomful of economists in late March when he launched into an ...

The president wants to reduce the trillion-dollar interest cost of the government. To do so he needs the Fed to slash rates, ...

Roger J Kerr says if US inflation doesn't increase to levels feared by the Federal Reserve and financial market participants, ...

Without independence, the Fed couldn’t be trusted to give priority to low inflation over the president’s other priorities.

Waller doubled down on that position July 17, saying the latest data, including the June CPI figure at 2.7% and other recent economic numbers, show it’s definitely time for the Fed’s first rate cut in ...