The call for fiscal sustainability was included in a joint statement by the four private-sector members including former Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masazumi Wakatabe and economist Toshihiro ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Kevin Fletcher and comprising Harri Kemp, Mustafa Saiyid, and Preya Sharma, conducted discussions for the 2025 Article IV Consultation with Germany ...

Prudent economic policies have achieved important successes. A reduction in the budget deficit from 4.7 percent of GDP in 2024 to a projected 3.6 percent of GDP this year, reflecting mostly continued ...

The S&P 500 (SPX) is poised for an end-of-year rally, supported by renewed federal spending and the conclusion of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Office for Budget Responsibility is about to deliver ...

For 40 years, investors lived by a simple rule: Don’t Fight the Fed. If you could anticipate the interest-rate cycle, you held the key to the business cycle. Tightening meant slowdown, easing meant ...

President Donald Trump is once again floating the idea of firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, ostensibly in objection to excessively high interest rates. But this debate is not about ...

To the editor: I am just an ordinary citizen, and I am not schooled in economics. My understanding is that the mandate of the Federal Reserve is to seek to maintain full employment and price stability ...

A cautious Federal Reserve kept policy rates unchanged during the first half of 2025. It was trying to ascertain whether the Trump administration’s protectionist measures would result in a one-time ...

Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican bill could reshape the country’s finances for a generation. By Andrew Duehren Reporting from Washington Washington has not ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

Medicaid today stands at the center of one of the most complex challenges in American healthcare: how to preserve a program that is financially massive, legally entrenched, and socially indispensable, ...