Bangladesh’s experiment with tight monetary policy -- raising borrowing costs to curb persistently high inflation -- has hit a pause marked by uncertainty. The central bank had pledged to hold the ...

Zimbabwe remains committed to curbing inflation, but plans to shift the emphasis of monetary policy to place more emphasis on managing the money supply, the central bank said. Writing in a five-year ...

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned against seeing monetary policy as a solution to debt problems, implicitly rejecting recent suggestions from France’s far-right party that the ...

The policy world is aghast, but President Trump’s desires for monetary affairs aren’t as crazy as conventional wisdom portrays. I see three broad desires: Interest rates should be lower, in part to ...

Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve, received the 2025 Adam Smith Award for exemplary leadership and navigating complex monetary policy challenges. Powell reiterated the Fed's data-driven ...

THE FEDERAL RESERVE is usually run by technocratic consensus. Today it has become a battleground. On September 17th the Fed cut interest rates for the first time since December, by a quarter of a ...

Since 2009, the Federal Reserve has managed monetary policy by controlling the quantity of securities it buys outright. The Fed implemented three rounds of quantitative easing, significantly ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore's central bank kept its monetary settings unchanged on Wednesday, dashing some expectations for a loosening of policy, after second quarter economic growth surprised to ...

SINGAPORE, July 25 (Reuters) - Economists are split on whether Singapore's central bank will loosen monetary policy or leave settings unchanged in its scheduled review next week as the economy remains ...

Why are central banks looking at blockchains? Central banks are tiptoeing into the world of blockchain not because it is fashionable but because every part of the money-making machine, from settlement ...

In the unending battle of economic stability, with both promising growth and persistent challenges, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has made a pivotal decision by retaining the Monetary Policy Rate ...