The Latest Breaking News from Jerome Powell

“Naturally, increased homebuilding comes to mind, but the type of properties that do get built should reflect varying price points and not just be concentrated on the upper end of the market.”

"In other contexts, a larger move may convey greater concern about growth, but Powell repeatedly stressed this was basically a joyous cut as ebbing inflation allows the Fed to act to preserve a strong labor market."

Money versus job satisfaction. It is the perennial professional quandary, but there may in fact be one exception: central banking. Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve, earns $190,000 per year for the privilege of overseeing the greatest economy the world has ever seen. I'm not saying the job…

Western investors, through physical ETFs, are finally joining the global gold rush led by central banks, Asian investors, and wealthy investors. Holdings of physically backed gold ETFs have risen by 90.4 tons, equivalent to $7.3 billion, since May, according to data from the World Gold Council, and GLD holdings expanded…

Are we looking at a recession, or soft landing? Either way, a rate-cutting environment has big implications for your stocks, bonds, and savings.

"We're always going into this meeting and asking 'What's the right thing to do for the people we serve?' We do that and we make a decision as a group and then we announce it. That's always what it is, it's never about anything else."

Is it possible to decouple interest rates and hiring in the coming years?

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU24) are up +1.48%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU24) are up +2.03% this morning on expectations the Federal Reserve’s half-percentage-point rate cut will steer the U.S. economy toward a “soft landing,” while investors awaited a new round of U.S. economic data and an…

The US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction for more than four years, sharply lowering borrowing costs shortly before November's presidential election.