The administration’s effort to oust a Fed governor as part of a pressure campaign for lower borrowing costs created an inescapable distraction at this year’s Jackson Hole conference.

Mysticism about the Fed's ability to grow the economy is rooted in a myth that won't die about the Fed causing the Great Depression.

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has accused Fed governor Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud again. Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Friday, the Trump appointee posted what he described as “new evidence in the Cook matter” on his X account.

As the Trump administration escalates its deployment of troops in the nation’s capital and vows similar moves elsewhere, leaders of largely Democratic cities across the country are pushing back.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would expand his crime crackdown to Chicago, using federal powers to intervene in another city governed by Democrats, and threatened to take full control of Washington,

Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’