KPMG Chief Economist Dr Brendan Rynne discusses why the US is moving rates “well ahead” of when Australia is. The US Federal ...

In turn, this generates a contractionary effect on output. Thus, unless the government has plenty of room to finance an increase in aggregate demand without affecting the interest rate much ...

Such policies are typically used to boost productivity and the economy. Conversely, the policy is contractionary when government spending decreases or taxes rise. Contractionary policies might be ...

Explore the Fed's recent rate cut and its implications on the economy, highlighting the importance of context and current ...

The US unemployment rate has risen sharply while markets are jittery after stocks saw their worst losses since a massive ...

The economist and New York Times Opinion columnist Paul Krugman makes the case for aggressive rate cuts by the Federal ...

The Federal Reserve is set to cut interest rates by at least a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, putting the ...

Donald Trump howls that the interest rate cut was political. No, says the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

In the week ending September 13, all three major U.S. stock indexes posted significant gains, with the Nasdaq surging nearly ...

Struggling households have been given hope after two leading economists cautiously backed predictions the Reserve Bank could ...

Preceding each of the stagflations was a period of contractionary monetary policies. We can see this by observing rising fed funds rates prior to each stagflation. The fed funds rate, the interest ...

Brazil's central bank kicked off an interest rate-hiking cycle on Wednesday with a 25 basis-point increase, as expected, and ...