The Great Depression resulted from a multitude of different complex policy and economic factors, including ill-timed tariffs and misguided moves by the young Federal Reserve. "The crash was not a ...

In my previous post, I explained how the real-bills doctrine originally espoused by Adam Smith was later misunderstood and misapplied as a policy guide for central banking, not, as Smith understood it ...

Tennessee, like the rest of the country, was suffering terribly from the effects of the Great Depression. Despite the general impression the 1920s ... including a significant loan from the Federal ...

Supply-siders have counted among their number the most dedicated and profound of all students of political economic history ...

For instance, the Federal Reserve didn't even exist in 1878 or ... bull market in the S&P 500 dating back to the start of the Great Depression in September 1929. According to Bespoke's ...

The Federal Reserve announced that it has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System, which incorporated climate risk into financial rules.

Critics also argue the Federal Reserve Bank violates the Constitution by being too closely tied to the private sector, and it lacks transparency and accountability. Some people are opposed to the ...

U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers meeting next week are expected to keep interest rates on hold but the larger story unfolding will be how the central bank confronts early moves by President ...

Days before the first Federal Reserve meeting of 2025, Trump said that he would "demand" lower interest rates – but the politically independent central bank isn't beholden to the president's ...

The Federal Reserve meets for its first two-day rate-setting session of 2025 on Tuesday, January 28, and Wednesday, January 29, 2025. At the end of its Federal Open Market Committee session on ...