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Jerome Powell

  1. the money game
    How Jerome Powell Got The Fed To A Big Half-Point CutThe next phase of the economy is here, but the Fed isn’t ready to declare victory.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  2. the money game
    Brat Summer Healed the EconomyInflation is low. Unemployment isn’t bad. Mortgage rates are down. What happened?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  3. the money game
    Jerome Powell Is Running Out of Reasons to Hold Interest Rates So HighWall Street is betting on a September rate cut. Is the Fed chair listening this time?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  4. the money game
    Fed Raises Rates In Attempt To Ease Inflation
    The Economy Is Finally Becoming … Normal?Inflation is falling, wages are rising, and the Federal Reserve is fixing to cut interest rates twice by 2025.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  5. the national interest
    Trump Second-Term Plan Includes Federal Reserve CoupThe next Trump administration will be far more chaotic.
    By Jonathan Chait
  6. the money game
    Inflation Is Down, But Jerome Powell Isn’t (Quite) Ready to Cut Interest RatesThe era of high rates continues. How long can this go on for?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  7. year in review
    The Wackiest Political Stories of 2023From Lauren Boebert’s steamy Beetlejuice date to Ron DeSantis’s pudding fingers, U.S. politics had another bizarre trip around the sun.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  8. the money game
    Jerome Powell Might Have Avoided a Recession. How Is a Mystery.“He helped steer us towards this nirvana of the soft landing.” Just don’t ask any questions.
    By Jen Wieczner
  9. the money game
    5 Things to Know About the Best Inflation Report in a Long TimeThe good news and the bad news from front lines of the war against high prices.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  10. jerome powell
    Jerome Powell Got Punked by Russian Prank CallersThe Fed chair thought he was talking to Zelenskyy — and gave unusually direct answers to big questions about the economy and interest rates.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  11. jerome powell
    Are We on the Edge of a Recession?The Federal Reserve thinks the economy is months away from slipping into a downturn. There are definitely reasons to worry.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  12. the fed
    Jerome Powell Will Not Be StoppedIt’s been a year since the Federal Reserve started hiking interest rates, and there’s no reason for it to turn back now.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  13. the money game
    Jerome Powell’s Crazy Balancing ActThe Fed chairman faces a big decision with the world watching. No one said his job would be easy.
    By Kyla Scanlon
  14. the economy
    Why There (Probably) Won’t Be a Recession This YearA conversation with macroeconomic analyst Jon Turek.
    By Eric Levitz
  15. the economy
    How Bad Is the Economy Going to Get?The case for (and against) expecting a bad recession in 2023.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. the money game
    Jerome Powell Needs You to Stop Asking for a Raise Now, Thank YouAsk not what the economy can do for you — ask what you can do for the economy.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  17. the money game
    Why The Economy Is Starting To Feel Good All Of A SuddenThe Federal Reserve looks ready to ease up on throttling the economy. Have we averted disaster?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  18. the money game
    Is Wall Street Finally Listening to Jerome Powell?The Federal Reserve Chair has struggled to get his message across, but now it appears he’s made himself clear
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  19. the money game
    The Reporter Who Knows What Jerome Powell Is ThinkingOr, at least, that is Nick Timiraos’s reputation in a world where everyone is watching the Fed.
    By Jen Wieczner
  20. the money game
    The Next Recession Might Be ManufacturedThe pain the Federal Reserve is inflicting around the world could hit Americans next.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  21. the money game
    How Rising Rents Crashed the Stock MarketTuesday’s decline in stocks was the largest in more than two years. A steep rise in housing inflation was a big reason.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  22. the money game
    Inflation Is Slowing, But More Pain Is ComingThe Federal Reserve is trying to show that it has the wherewithal to right the economy without blowing it up.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  23. the money game
    It Could Be Years Before America’s Inflation Problem Is Under ControlThe Federal Reserve just raised rates by the most in 28 years, but its power to tame spiraling prices is limited.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  24. the money game
    The Fed Just Raised the Odds of a RecessionInflation pushed the economy into a corner, but Wall Street might just come out as a winner.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  25. the money game
    Warning: Recession AheadThe Fed made the economy weird, and now no one knows exactly when it’s going to crash.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  26. economy
    The Pandemic Economy Is Officially OverYou can blame inflation for paying more in interest fees, which are probably only going to get bigger
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  27. the money game
    ‘Buy the Dip’ Goes BustFrom Wall Street to r/WallStreetBets, traders find their pandemic strategy doesn’t work anymore.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  28. inflation
    The Season of High Prices Has No End in SightOmicron kept people at home, and inflation followed them there.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  29. the federal reserve
    Fed to Markets: The Prices Are Too Damn HighJerome Powell told markets what they expected to hear Wednesday, albeit in a slightly more hawkish tone than some anticipated.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. the money game
    5 Things to Know About This Red-Hot Inflation NumberThe Consumer Price Index rose 7 percent — the highest in four decades. Here are some real-world implications.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  31. the money game
    This Year’s Economy Will Come Down to Wednesday’s Inflation ReportOne way or another, we’re at the beginning of the end stages of the pandemic-era financial and monetary policies.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  32. the money game
    Washington, D.C., Has an Insider-Trading ProblemWhy are Fed governors trading as they move markets? Why is Nancy Pelosi speculating on Tesla shares?
    By Michelle Celarier
  33. the money game
    The Federal Reserve Just Declared War Against InflationYou might not know what “tapering” means — but it is Jerome Powell’s main tool to fight higher prices.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  34. the national interest
    Republican Senator Tom Cotton Admits Trump, Not Biden, Caused InflationOops.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. the money game
    How Joe Biden Is Deciding Who Will Lead the Federal ReserveWill he replace Jerome Powell with Lael Brainard, the candidate favored by AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and others?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  36. the federal reserve
    The Big Problem With the Left’s Case Against Jerome PowellOne can imagine an aggressively anti-carbon Fed chair. But the U.S. Senate will not confirm one.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. the economy
    America’s Inflation Debate Is Fundamentally ConfusedTo raise real wages and lower Americans’ cost of living, we need to inject more demand into the economy, not less, economist J.W. Mason argues.
    By Eric Levitz
  38. jerome powell
    Fed to Biden: The Money Printer’s Still Got Plenty of InkJerome Powell applauded Congress’s new stimulus package Wednesday, while encouraging it to take further action on “the investment front.”
    By Eric Levitz
  39. coronavirus stimulus
    The Fed Gives Democrats the Green Light on Large StimulusThe central bank is worried about Congress stimulating the economy too little, not too much.
    By Eric Levitz
  40. the top line
    The World’s Best BureaucratAs chairman of the Federal Reserve during the pandemic, Jerome Powell has managed to do something almost unimaginable in Washington: a good job.
    By Josh Barro
  41. coranvirus stimulus
    Trump Pulls Plug on Stimulus Talks, Promises COVID Relief ‘After I Win’In an inscrutable decision, Trump flushed prospects for a second stimulus check and a boost to the economy — quite possibly until late January.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. federal reserve
    In Historic Move, Fed Will No Longer Kill Jobs to Fight Phantom InflationFor decades, the central bank has deliberately slowed growth whenever unemployment got “too low.” Jerome Powell says that era is over.
    By Eric Levitz
  43. markets
    White House: Stocks Are Plunging Because Jerome Powell Doesn’t SmileMultiple Trump advisers have blamed the markets’ jitters on the Fed chair’s poor “bedside manner.”
    By Eric Levitz
  44. the economy
    We’re Paying for Coronavirus Stimulus by Printing Money. And That’s Fine!Congress should learn to stop worrying and love monetizing the debt.
    By Eric Levitz
  45. the federal reserve
    Why Trump Might Be Right About Negative Interest RatesThe Federal Reserve opposes the radical stimulus policy. But it might be necessary to promote recovery.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. the top line
    The Federal Reserve Cut Rates to Zero, But Markets Aren’t That ImpressedThere are problems Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve can solve – and problems they cannot solve.
    By Josh Barro
  47. the top line
    The Federal Reserve Should Not Be Part of the #ResistanceFormer New York Federal Reserve Bank president Bill Dudley is making a very unwise argument about Trump and the Fed.
    By Josh Barro
  48. the top line
    Here’s What the ‘CRAZY INVERTED YIELD CURVE’ Means for YouAn unusual configuration of bond yields is not proof that we’re going into a recession. But there’s a reason the stock market is spooked.
    By Josh Barro
  49. the top line
    Trump Can Trade-War His Way to Interest-Rate Cuts — Even Though It’s StupidIt’s simple: When the president does things that hurt the economy, that gives Jerome Powell & Co. more room to cut rates.
    By Josh Barro
  50. the top line
    The Fed May Have Had No Choice But to Confuse Us AllJerome Powell faces an interesting challenge: how be clear about his intentions, even as he’s improvising to clean up Trump’s messes.
    By Josh Barro
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