Grownups like Powell and Cook are firm, but restrained. In a piece about Powell this week the WSJ quoted one of his former colleagues as saying, “I think it is no more subtle than he wakes up every ...

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A U.S. Justice Department official urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's ...

Just three weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke to reporters after the central bank had kept its key interest rate unchanged for a fifth straight meeting and said the job market was ...

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department plans to investigate Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, with a top official informing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of the probe and encouraging him to ...

President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on the US central bank on Wednesday with a call for Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Lisa Cook to step down as he continued to criticize Fed Chairman Jerome ...

The independence of the US Federal Reserve is under scrutiny. President Trump has pressured the Fed to cut interest rates. He even called for a govern ...

Economists have long preferred independent central banks because they can more easily take unpopular steps to fight inflation ...