
The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates a quarter point for the first time in nearly a decade represents an important and welcome step in the direction of fiscal sanity. It’s a small step, but one that benefits ordinary Americans and will be disliked by many on Wall Street. And in the nation’s capitol.
by Peter Schweizer16 Dec 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates from record lows set at the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, a shift that heralds modestly higher rates on some loans.
by Breitbart News16 Dec 2015, 12:37 PM PST0

The problem facing Democrats as they roll into the 2016 election cycle is that the economy has improved just enough for the Federal Reserve to kill it with an interest-rate hike.
by John Hayward1 Dec 2015, 1:03 PM PST0

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 20 other of his colleagues have co-sponsored Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015, according to a statement released by Cruz.
by Michelle Fields12 Nov 2015, 2:20 PM PST0

The Federal Reserve is keeping U.S. interest rates at record lows in the face of threats from a weak global economy, persistently low inflation and unstable financial markets.
by Breitbart News17 Sep 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

At the Jackson Hole Economic Summit the American Principles Project demonstrated that the people can’t be fooled in the long term by monetary magic forever. In a national poll by McLaughlin & McLaughlin 1,000 respondents were asked if they would support the Gold Standard in the United States. 39% replied yes, 15% replied no, and 46% were undecided. That is more than a 2:1 ratio for favorability.
These results and the margin between approve and disapprove are better than recent polls on the Federal Reserve or its recent leaders as shown in recent Gallup polls over the last two years: Negative on the Fed and its leaders are very high, while negatives on Gold are very low.
by Pat McKim2 Sep 2015, 6:05 AM PST0

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen recently joined the rising chorus of economists and former Fed officials warning about the risks of irrational exuberance by bond and stock investors paying bubble-inflated prices. Conspicuously silent about the risks of stock investing over the last 6 years, Yellen’s comments quickly tanked the bond market. But with the NASDAQ tech-heavy index up 500% since the bottom of the last crash, Yellen seems to be warning this bubble could pop.
by Chriss W. Street19 May 2015, 9:00 AM PST0

After six years of Obamanomics, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is still citing “stagnant wage growth as a sign of continued problems in the labor market,” and the immediate future isn’t looking much better.
by Dan Riehl9 Jan 2015, 9:25 PM PST0