Many think interest rates are too high, and a growing chorus of voices is calling on the Fed to cut rates. Are they right?

President Donald Trump on Monday continued his extended attack against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the central ...

A compelling argument can be made that U.S. interest rates are higher than they “should” be relative to inflation. The implication of that argument is that rates are likely to decline in the coming ...

Despite multiple price support retests, declining OI combined with cool Fed policy typically boosts the Bitcoin bull case. “The timing of this cleanup coincides with the Fed’s decision to pause rate ...

Unfortunately, central bankers can‘t wave a magic wand and make price inflation disappear while the same central bankers also ...

The Fed continues quantitative tightening, shrinking its securities portfolio by $2.1 trillion since March 2022, but excess ...

“He probably won’t cut today,” Mr. Trump said, adding that the Fed should cut rates by 2.5 percentage points, which would be one of the biggest moves in the central bank’s history.

I put “should” in quotes because I’m comparing current rates with their two-decade average. It’s always possible that the last 20 years’ average is “wrong” and current interest rates ...

Now, with the most recent CPI reading (for May 2025) coming in at an annualized rate of just 2.4%, the Fed has penciled in ...

But in 2022, inflation surged to 6.6%, the highest since 1981. The Fed responded in kind over 2022-23 by raising the federal-funds rate by 5 percentage points, the largest rate hike since 1980.

That leaves its key rate at 2%, more than 2 percentage points below the Fed’s 4.25% to 4.5% and among the largest gaps between the regions in recent memory. While Trump didn’t elaborate last ...