Brainard: If so, it is not a smart strategy. Hitting working families with huge price hikes, raising the risk of throwing the ...

Powell didn’t use the exact word, but said President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs were “highly likely” to fuel ...

Rising trade tensions and sweeping shifts in the global trading system will trigger downward revisions of the International ...

Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned in a speech that protectionism erodes ...

The head of the Federal Reserve made some of his most forceful comments yet Wednesday about the president’s tariffs, ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks at the Economic Club of Chicago Wednesday on a variety of topics, ...

The outlook for economic growth may be softening, but the U.S. labor market is still on solid ground, Powell said. Jobs growth has slowed relative to last year, but the unemployment rate remains “in a ...

In prepared remarks to the Economic Club of Chicago, Federal Reserve Chair Powell reiterated that tariffs are "significantly ...

Tariffs are tools that must be used wisely. While they can protect domestic industries and jobs, they may also raise prices, trigger trade wars and slow economic growth. Their impact depends on how ...