Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has stabilized this past summer, which could explain why the stock market has tanked in September. Although the U.S. central bank’s balance sheet is more than $7 trillion, the explosion in growth has leveled off. Here is what its total assets look like: Does this mean the Eccles Building’s stimulus […]

Well, to no one’s surprise, the Federal Reserve is suppressing interest rates for longer. Following its two-day September Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, it left interest rates unchanged in the target range of zero and 0.25 percent. It will stay this way until at least 2023, in addition to allowing inflation to run above […]

By: Andrew Moran The Federal Reserve has potentially had the most memorable year in its more than century-long history. What started out as a year of will they or won’t they cut interest rates blossomed into a time of slashing rates to near zero, unleashing unlimited quantitative easing, purchasing corporate and municipal bonds, and growing its balance sheet to a […]

A bunch of people staged a 60-second “die-in” over the weekend in front of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank headquarters. These were not a bunch of Austrians or libertarians protesting the destructive interventionist policies or calling for its abolition. Instead, they were likely demanding even more intervention, mostly from a social justice point of view, […]