The government charges the Federal Reserve with maintaining sustainable economic growth, high employment and stable prices. To achieve these goals, the Fed constantly monitors the economy, either ...

Federal Reserve expansionary monetary policy increases the money supply by lowering interest rates so businesses and consumers can afford to borrow money more easily. The Fed also lowers reserve ...

Critics of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory claim that capital investors over time will no longer be fooled by artificially-low interest rates triggered by ...

Monetary policy has "in hindsight" been "too expansionary," according to the Chairman of the Swiss National Bank Thomas Jordan. Jordan made the comments on a monetary policy panel hosted by CNBC's ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland focused on cutting business taxes, incentivising foreign investment and improving stretched public services and infrastructure when it tapped some of Europe's healthiest ...

Paul Krugman has a long essay in The Guardian about the follies of expansionary austerity. This is the idea that reducing government expenditure (more accurately, reducing the deficit) in a recession ...

Following the financial crisis, many Americans had their first experiences with macroeconomic theory, as the nightly news focused on the crisis and how the government was responding. One of the core ...

With the expected move by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates before the end of the year, many are asking about the effects on emerging market countries. Will outflows increase, and how will ...

House Committee on Ways and Means chairman and Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda underscored the need to support expansionary government spending to help spur economic activity this year. The lawmaker ...

Central banks are the key to waging expansionary monetary policy campaigns, when a nation’s economy needs the help most. Expansionary monetary policy is an economic policy engineered by a country’s ...