US president Donald Trump has been increasingly calling for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, claiming that there ...

There is historical precedent for this sort of meddling, and it is instructive. In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon ...

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That suggests the need for, amid a historic plunge in the value of the dollar, a shift in focus away from Mr. Powell and ...

In fact, there’s a long history of presidents putting pressure on Fed chiefs to cut interest rates. But President Trump’s ...

The impact from tariffs has so far been most immediately felt in financial markets, with stocks erasing nearly a year’s worth ...

President Trump called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell a “major loser” this week for refusing to immediately drop ...

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President Trump said Tuesday he has "no intention of firing" Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, one day after the president called Powell a "major loser" and publicly lobbied the central bank ...

President Donald Trump has been loudly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for years now. Since January, the President has accused him of playing politics by keeping interest rates high.