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 ...

Soft landings are desired over hard landings for economic policy makers. To achieve a soft landing, government officials and central banks will gradually reduce expansionary fiscal and monetary policy ...

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 ...

Monetary policy has "in hindsight" been "too expansionary," according to the Chairman of the Swiss National Bank Thomas Jordan. Jordan made the comments on a monetary policy panel hosted by CNBC's ...

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 ...

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 ...

There has been an intense debate among economists for the past year over whether we should provide additional fiscal stimulus to keep growth on track, offset higher taxes and spending cuts at the ...

With the expected move by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates before the end of the year, many are asking about the effects on emerging market countries. Will outflows increase, and how will ...

Much as I enjoy seeing people shouting at the EU and the ECB for the near idiot manner in which they have conducted monetary policy in the past few years, for I yield to no one except Scott Sumner in ...