Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will personally interview the leading candidates to take over as chair of the Federal Reserve when the job becomes available next year, according to Bloomberg. The ...

In a recent exchange, Mark Paoletta, Chief Legal Officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), defended the ...

Tariffs are driving up costs, but their impact on inflation hasn't fully appeared due to inventory stockpiling and slow ...

The Fed uses interest rates as the benchmark tool to maintain both sides of its mandate. But there is tension between the two ...

President Trump and the Republican Congress have given political liberals a chance to take that meaning back — by opening ...

Donald Trump’s pick of Stephen Miran for Federal Reserve governor is attracting attention beyond his image as someone who ...

"The main threat to the Fed independence is not politically motivated turnover shifting the outcome of votes." ...

Letters to the Editor about Trump and Epstein, Richland schools budget, PNNL retirement cuts and the Israel-Hamas war.

Donald Trump’s desire to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve is unlikely to alter Fed decision making or ...

Miran, an architect of Trump’s tariff policy, would be a temporary fix. He’d serve the remainder of outgoing Fed Gov. Adriana ...

The appointment gives President Trump a potentially more direct route to pursue his desire for easier monetary policy and ...

Beto O'Rourke is going to bat for Texas Democrats - on the road and online - as they attempt to stop GOP plans to redraw Texas' congressional maps.