Tag: Federal Reserve

The Inflation Ghost That Won’t Die: Why Consumer Prices Keep Defying the Fed’s Victory Lap
The Federal Reserve wanted a clean narrative. Inflation was cooling. Rate cuts were coming. The economy was threading the needle between price stability and growth. But the l...
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The Judge Who Stood Between Congress and the Fed Chair: Inside the Legal Battle Over Powell Subpoenas
A federal judge in Washington has refused to lift a temporary restraining order blocking congressional subpoenas aimed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and other senior...
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The Fed’s Waiting Game: Why Alberto Musalem Thinks Patience Is the Only Rational Play Right Now
Alberto Musalem isn't blinking. The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis made that much clear in remarks delivered Thursday, laying out a case for holding inter...
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Jerome Powell’s Blunt Warning: The Era of Predictable Fed Policy May Be Over
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stood before cameras last week and said something that Wall Street has been reluctant to hear. The old playbook — the one where inflation...
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Powell’s Waiting Game: The Fed Holds Steady as Geopolitical Tremors and Trade Wars Collide
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell isn't blinking. Not yet.With a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal suddenly materializing, tariff uncertainty still rippling through global supp...
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The Case That Could Rewrite Presidential Power Over the Fed — and Why Wall Street Is Watching Every Filing
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before his term expires in May 2026, but the legal skirmish — and the politi...
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$100 Oil Would Wreck the Economy: What a U.S.-Iran War Means for Markets, Inflation, and Growth
Oil at $100 a barrel. That's the scenario keeping economists and portfolio managers up at night as tensions between the United States and Iran threaten to spill into outright...
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The Ghost of the 1970s: Why Wall Street Is Bracing for a Stagflation Shock That Could Upend the U.S. Economy
The specter of stagflation — that toxic cocktail of stagnant economic growth paired with stubbornly high inflation — is once again haunting the corridors of Wall Street. A gr...
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The Fed Is Watching Kalshi: How a Prediction Market Upstart Caught the Attention of America’s Central Bank
A small but fast-growing prediction market called Kalshi has earned something few financial startups ever achieve: serious academic attention from researchers at the Federal...
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The Banking Ambitions of Payment Giants: Why Stripe, PayPal and Affirm Are Racing to Secure Charters
The financial services industry is witnessing a fundamental shift as payment processing giants increasingly pursue banking licenses, a strategic pivot that promises to reshap...
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Housing Market’s Spring Thaw Hits a Wall as Mortgage Rates Surge, Sidelining Buyers
The U.S. housing market’s anticipated spring revival has been abruptly checked by a familiar adversary: rising mortgage rates. A sharp downturn in mortgage demand, the most s...
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The Gilded Exit: A Push to Bring German Gold Home Signals Deepening Distrust in the Dollar
FRANKFURT—A spectre is haunting the transatlantic financial alliance, and it is made of solid gold. In a direct challenge to the post-war monetary order, a group of prominent...
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Fed’s Stealth $125B Bank Bailout: Liquidity Crunch or Hidden Easing?
In the waning days of October 2025, the Federal Reserve executed a series of overnight repurchase agreements that injected a staggering $125 billion into the U.S. banking system...
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Fed Says Rate Cuts Are Coming
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that interest rate cuts are on the horizon, saying "the time has come."...
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Regulators Shut Down Signature Bank
Regulators have shut down Signature Bank, the third bank in the last week, citing "systemic risk." The...
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