FED: Trump strategy is to make it harder
President Trump really wants the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. He’s repeatedly accused the central bank of holding back economic growth and undermining his trade war with China. After […]
President Trump really wants the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. He’s repeatedly accused the central bank of holding back economic growth and undermining his trade war with China. After […]
President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to soften the economic blow of his trade battle with China, doling out billions of dollars in farmer bailouts and telling Americans […]
Will a possibly imminent US-China trade agreement exacerbate global business cycles or even plant the seeds of the next Asian financial crisis? If the eventual agreement – assuming there is […]
The U.S. central bank is keeping a key interest rate steady, despite urges from President Donald Trump to lower it in order to boost the economy. Even though growth in […]
The deepening chaos in Venezuela could have profound consequences for the global oil markets. US oil prices initially rallied on Tuesday as TV images depicted a violent uprising in Venezuela, […]
It is the best interests of an independent central bank of make its policy choices as transparent as possible. It has been amply demonstrated that this reduces the volatility of […]
U.S. President Donald Trump and the Saudi government have closely aligned views on most issues but they disagree significantly on the desirable level for oil prices, which could become a […]
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Wednesday that he was leaning toward an extension of the OPEC+ production cuts after June, although he noted that the producer group […]