The discount rate is another example; it is the interest ... decisions can be either contractionary or expansionary. Contractionary monetary policy is also known as “tightening” or ...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants more influence over Federal Reserve policy. He recently indicated that he won’t ask Fed Chair Jerome Powell to step down, meaning he may not be able to ...

Bullard, who is now the dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University, will give the opening address on ...

The following is the transcript of a Bloomberg interview with European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel conducted on Nov. 25. To read the story, click here Euro-area business ...

Colombo, Nov 27 (Daily Mirror) - The Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, at its meeting held on 26 November 2024, decided to further ease the monetary policy stance and set the ...

THE Malaysian government has proposed an expansionary fiscal policy with Budget 2023 having a total allocation of RM373.3bil as compared to RM385.3bil in 2022. This was done with the aim of ...

But willful foolishness usually has a cost. So it is with modern monetary theory. Ironically, this basket of economic fallacies, embraced by policymakers during the Biden-Harris administration ...

Markets were keeping a close eye on the governor's comments on Monday, which were his first on monetary policy since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5. He also ...

Regardless of when the RBA decides to make cuts, the announcement will mark the first monetary policy easing since November 2020. The RBA is yet to budge on its policy, after it increased rates 13 ...