But what does this mean to American taxpayers and an ailing U.S. economy? CNN senior business correspondent Ali Velshi breaks it down. Q: What does this mean in layman's terms? A: The Federal Reserve ...

America’s baby boomers are often seen as the lucky ones — the generation that bought homes before prices soared, rode decades ...

The Fed Funds Rate is coming down, as the Fed sees the worsening conditions in the labor market as the major threat to our ...

As government spending spins out of control, the Federal Reserve continues to inflate, leaving the economy in a permanent state of inflation. Most Americans ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the ...

The central bank confronts “no risk-free path” in balancing the risks of a sharp slowdown in the labor market and resurgent ...

The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report, leaving policymakers at the Federal Reserve with a cloudier picture even as the economy enters a challenging phase of stubbornly ...

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

As the British and Australian central banks prepare to crank up their money-printing presses and the U.S. election outcome ups the pressure for more Federal Reserve action, one thing is clear -- ...

Money-printing at the world's biggest central banks has slowed to a tenth of the rate seen in April, putting the onus on governments to spend more as a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic threatens to again ...

Arthur Hayes believes the U.S. Federal Reserve is preparing to adopt yield curve control, a policy where the central bank ...

The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates has not resulted in lower borrowing costs for households and businesses due to a “policy dysfunction surcharge” caused by ...