It is widely believed that a recession can be avoided when inflation expectations remain anchored to the inflation target under a rule-based monetary policy ...

While investors eagerly await lower interest rates when the FOMC meets on March 17-18, the leading monetary policy rules suggest holding steady is the right approach. Read more ...

Christopher Sims, the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and a Nobel laureate whose work ...

Estimating the timeline for the end game for the war in Iran remains a slippery task. Gaming out the costs, by contrast, is ...

Central bankers are tapping nontraditional data sources for a more complete picture of the economy In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending ...

Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...

Michael Farr, chairman of FarrCrest Capital, raised questions about personal responsibility at the University of Delaware’s ...

He and Thomas J. Sargent shared the prize in 2011 for devising statistical tools to help guide economic policymakers.

Joy News is set to air a special edition of its flagship economics programme Beyond the Numbers, today, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, as the Bank of Ghana's Monetary Policy Committee prepares to announce ...

Central banks have good reason to sit up and take notice of how this month's oil shock is hitting inflation expectations. Yet ...

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has held UK interest rates at 3.75% as conflict in the Middle East forces the ...

By William Schomberg LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - The Bank of England will choose its words even more carefully than usual ...