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Jerome Powell

July 2024

  • US Federal Reserve Chair Powell speaks at the Economic Club in Washington, DC.

    Business live
    UK grocery inflation falls to 1.6%; Fed chair Powell hints at US rate cuts – as it happened

  • man in suit and glasses speaks

    Cutting interest rates ‘too late or too little’ could hit jobs, Fed chair warns

May 2024

  • man in a suit outside a courthouse

    Jailed Trump adviser predicts mass deportations as second term priority

    Peter Navarro says first acts of Trump presidency would be firing Fed chair and intensifying China trade war in prison interview

April 2024

  • Jerome Powell<br>Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell participates in a Washington Forum on the Canadian Economy, together with Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    Fed chair Jerome Powell: high inflation likely to delay rate cuts this year

  • Female doctor arranging surgical equipment.

    Biden hails ‘America’s comeback’ as 303,000 new jobs in March beat forecast

December 2023

  • Members of Climate Defiance hold a banner on a stage that reads "Fed is burning: money futures planet"

    New breed of climate protesters vows to take fight to ‘cowards’ of US politics

    Climate Defiance, trying to make the climate crisis a top issue in 2024 election, isn’t afraid to anger ‘cowards’ and ‘criminals’

October 2023

  • A line of well-dressed multi-ethnic men and women on a stage hold a white banner with black and blue lettering, while well-dressed mostly white folks attempt to pull it away from them from the floor.

    Climate activists force Fed chair Jerome Powell off stage in New York

    On Thursday protesters chanted: ‘Off fossil finance!’ and held a banner reading: ‘Fed Is Burning: Money, Futures, Planet’

August 2023

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    In a multipolar world the dollar’s dominance won’t last forever

    Larry Elliott
  • The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, centre, talks with attendees at the annual symposium in Grand Teton national park last year.

    Fed chair may leave door open to higher interest rates in Jackson Hole speech

July 2023

  • A now hiring sign in a shop window

    US economy adds 209,000 jobs in June as hiring slows

    Rise was lower than the 240,000 jobs economists had expected though job market remains robust

May 2023

  • A produce vender weighs an onion at a market in Washington DC.

    US inflation beat forecasts in April but remained high at 4.9%

    Annual rate has fallen sharply since hitting 40-year high last June but prices are still rising at a rate over twice the Fed’s target
  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Can Joe Biden escape the fallout from the US banking crisis?

    Larry Elliott
    If president is not worried about re-election prospects after one of biggest economic bubbles of past 100 years, he should be
  • Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell

    Trading halted in shares of two more US lenders as fears of banking crisis mount

    Regulators step in after PacWest and Western Alliance shares plunge as investors fear repeat of First Republic, SVB and Signature failures

April 2023

  • Jerome Powell on the phone

    Chair of US Fed prank-called by Russians pretending to be Zelenskiy

  • A man rides an electric scooter past a 'Now hiring' sign outside a business.

    US adds 236,000 jobs in March as labor market weakens

March 2023

  • Credit Suisse shares fell 8% on Friday.

    Credit Suisse shares continue to fall despite efforts to calm nerves

    Lifelines handed to Swiss bank and US regional bank First Republic fail to ease investor concerns
  • Robert Reich

    The US central bank is poised to cause untold hardship to millions of Americans

    Robert Reich
    The Federal Reserve chairman has admitted that at least 2 million people could lose their jobs if interest rates keep rising
  • Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

    Business live
    Markets rocked as Jerome Powell warns Fed could switch back to bigger interest rate rises –as it happened

    Federal Reserve chair says US central bank would be prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes if data justified it

February 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve building is seen in Washington, DC<br>FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve building is seen in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts//File Photo

    Fed announces smallest interest hike in a year as inflation ‘eases somewhat’

    Quarter-point increase to a range of 4.5% to 4.75% signals a slowdown in Fed’s fight against soaring inflation

January 2023

  • Joseph Stiglitz

    Project Syndicate economists
    How should you fight inflation? (Spoiler alert: not with interest rate rises)

    Joseph Stiglitz
    US inflation is mainly supply-side driven so further rate hikes will have little to no effect – and cause deep problems of their own
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