Tag results for: Monetary Policy
Opinion | The Fed’s March Upward
The FOMC raises its terminal target rate forecast again—to 4.6%.
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Opinion | The Fed Can’t Reduce Inflation by Winging It
The Labor Department last week confirmed something you already knew: Inflation is far too high. You still may be wondering what the Federal Reserve’s plan is for bringing...
Opinion | The European Central Bank Goes Big on a Rate Hike
The European Central Bank on Thursday joined the 75-point club, raising its three policy rates by 0.75 percentage point each. That makes a 1.25 point increase since the...
Opinion | Biden and Powell Are at Odds on Inflation
If you were expecting Jerome Powell to unveil an elegant new intellectual framework for monetary policy in Jackson Hole, Wyo., last week, the Federal Reserve chairman’s speech on...
Opinion | What Jerome Powell Can Learn From Arthur Burns
By Thomas J. Sargent and William L. SilberAug. 28, 2022 12:03 pm ETHistory, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said last week in Jackson Hole, Wyo., warns against “prematurely...
Opinion | Nobody Knows How Interest Rates Affect Inflation
A grand economic experiment is under way. Can the Federal Reserve contain inflation without raising interest rates much higher than they are now? Conventional wisdom says that as...
