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 ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Monday defended the easy money policies of the Fed and other major central banks and denied they are hurting emerging market nations. Bernanke also insisted ...

Considering the positive effects seen in the US, UK and Japan following the implementation of their highly expansionary policies, criticism has often been levelled at the ECB for not executing a more ...

Treasury yields edged higher, and expansionary fiscal policies and resilient economies should result in higher risk premia across bond markets in 2026, Wellington Management said.

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced ...

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 ...

Gold recently surged to a record high, driven primarily by strong fundamentals and is likely to continue to witness positive price support due to global expansionary monetary policy. This should ...

When European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi began his tenure in 2011, Berlin and Frankfurt were relatively supportive with the understanding that they retained tacit, informal influence ...

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 ...