Jobs, Inflation, and the Fed: Will 2025 See One, Two, or Three Rate Cuts?

Traders are actively assessing the likelihood of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts for the year. While the Fed will likely remain idle this month, more long-term forecasts indicate a 25% chance of ... Read More

Americans Are Expecting Higher Prices. That Could Unnerve the Fed.

“We don’t want inflation expectations moving up so much that it makes the Fed’s job harder to get inflation back to 2 ... the cost of materials and labor to rise, they will increase their ... Read More

What the February Inflation Report Means for the Fed

Inflation came in cooler for February. That could give Federal Reserve officials extra confidence that price pressures were easing ... Read More

The Fed's job is not to boost the stock market. Here's what it should be doing.

but the Fed seems challenged to bring inflation down to 2%. Price stability encourages sound investment decisions. Getting U.S. inflation to 2% and keeping it there would foster healthy jobs ... Read More

Fed Wanted an Inclusive Jobs Recovery. Some Are Asking If That Helped Fuel Inflation

Wherever the Fed’s 19 policymakers come down on this question, their ... jobs report showed unemployment was above 10%, inflation was well below the central bank’s 2% target and millions of ... Read More

Inflation rate rose by 2.8% in February, CPI report shows. Here's what that means for price relief.

The inflation rate last month was slightly lower than forecast by economists, although price increases are still higher than the Fed would like. Read More

Fed inflation hawk says focus could shift to jobs, growth

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman, one of the central bank's more inflation-wary officials, said the balance of risks for monetary policymaking could soon shift. Read More

Fed’s shift to ‘inclusive’ employment goal may be to blame for rising inflation: economists

Policymakers conducted their first review of the document in August 2020 – when unemployment jumped above 10% and inflation was well below the Fed’s 2% goal ... at the cost of minimizing ... Read More