Fiscal policy would seek to keep debt on a sustainable path and engineer an appropriate distribution of income. Monetary policy, delegated to independent central banks, would seek to deliver stable ...

Latin America and the Caribbean face slower growth and lingering inflation pressures as the global economy adjusts to major ...

IMF says public debt may go beyond record set after WWII. Under an adverse but plausible scenario, the IMF cautioned that ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged governments across the world to intensify efforts to strengthen ...

Stronger fiscal and monetary policy frameworks and more developed local currency debt markets have supported emerging market ...

Barely half of Americans aged 30 are earning more than their parents, compared with more than 90% half a century ago, the ...

Discover how response lag impacts economic policy effectiveness, detailing delays from policy implementation to tangible economic outcomes in fiscal and monetary strategies.

Fed's recent rate cut signals a shift to looser monetary policy, but real estate cycle risks and declining homebuilder stocks ...

Last year’s Budget ultimately boosted inflation through measures such as increases to vehicle excise duty, a rise in ...

While the Fed is not totally independent — Congress rightly sets its goals and approves its top personnel — fiscal policymakers should not pressure monetary policymakers to make borrowing easier. But ...

The yen weakened against other G-10 and Asian currencies on prospects of looser fiscal and monetary policy in Japan.

Since 1950 and before 2007, the way to bet was that, whatever the current gap between U.S. real GDP and potential output was, the U.S. economy would close 2/5 of that gap over the course of the next ...