Monetary policy

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that interest rates could climb less quickly as early as December, but warned that cutting rates "is not something we want to do soon."

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler and Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Nellie Liang see urgency in shoring up liquidity in government debt markets during times of stress.

The Federal Reserve notched two badly needed wins last week, as inflation showed signs of easing and the financial system withstood the collapse of one of the world's biggest crypto firms. Here's what that means for the central bank moving forward.

While banks appear to be well capitalized, the Fed outlined several areas of potential weakness in its biannual supervision and regulation report.

The Federal Reserve's semiannual financial stability report said the threat of continued high prices and the Fed's response to them are top threats for banks and other market participants.

A growing number of economists and lawmakers think the Fed has gone too far in its battle against inflation. Powell is worried it hasn't gone far enough.

In a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the chair of the Senate Banking Committee warned that the Fed was in danger of going too far in its efforts to tame inflation.

Inflated home values were already making homeownership unattainable for millions of Americans; now it's interest rates. To change this dynamic, we need some creative thinking.

The day after the FOMC announces its policy decision, Christian Scherrmann, U.S. Economist at DWS Group, will offer his take on the meeting, Fed Chair Powell's press conference and what comes next.

The Fed's interest rate hikes are meant to tame inflation, but the secondary impacts on housing could give the central bank a reason to pump the brakes.