After a series of hikes, the Fed’s short-run interest rate target lies between 3.0 and 3.25 percent. The problem with Fed policy isn’t excessive tightness, it’s excessive inscrutability.

Short-term economic changes, like interest rate hikes or inflation, can affect asset performance. Investors may adjust their ...

allowing the Fed to control short-term risk-free interest rates. Longer-run interest rates are influenced by the Fed but only indirectly. Contrary to much commentary in the financial press ...

In interest rate markets, there has been some shift to ... Powell says it’s possible that the “neutral rate” has risen in the short-run but not in the long-run. In other words, it’s ...

HORSLEY: Fed policymakers voted unanimously yesterday to keep interest rates where they've been since ... even if it's not popular in the short run. FADEL: NPR's Scott Horsley.

The election of former President Trump won't influence the Federal Reserve's decision on how much to cut interest rates anytime soon, the chief the central bank said. "In the near term the ...

Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler warned Thursday she sees the risk of higher inflation from tariffs and supports ...

The short run in economics refers to a period when at least one factor of production remains fixed, limiting a business’s ability to fully adjust to changes in demand or costs. For example, a ...