Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States and conducts the nation's monetary policy. The primary goals of the Fed's monetary policy are to promote maximum employment, stable ...

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has likened quantitative easing to “gain of function” monetary policy, which expanded the ...

The Federal Reserve wants its balance sheet runoff to continue as long as possible, but doing so could mean persuading banks to hold fewer reserves. A sudden spike in reserve demand brought the last ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters that bank reserves appear to remain abundant, leaving room for the central bank to continue shrinking its balance sheet, a process widely known as ...

Discussions about an optimal size of the Fed’s balance sheet are increasingly at odds with the diverse drivers of how this ledger interacts with a shifting regulatory environment. The Federal ...

Specifically, the Fed announced it will launch “reserve management purchases” of about $40 billion per month “on an ongoing ...

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet has shrunk from a peak of $8.97 trillion in April 2022 to $6.56 trillion as the central bank has unwound much of the Treasury and agency mortgage-backed security ...

It is a pleasure to offer closing remarks after another excellent U.S. Treasury Market Conference.1 A well-functioning and liquid Treasury market is in all of our interests, and indeed the national ...

The Federal Reserve can keep reducing its roughly $6.7 trillion balance sheet at a slow pace because banking reserves still remain "abundant," Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday. Powell noted that ...