The tracker covers fifty-four large countries—mainly those that target inflation in some manner. Tightening policy is indicated in red, loosening in blue. The more a country has raised (lowered) rates ...

Explore the effects of cost-push and demand-pull inflation on supply, demand, and prices. Learn the causes and key differences to better understand economic impacts.

When inflation affects countries globally, as it did after the COVID-19 pandemic, how should central banks respond? Chicago Booth’s Veronica Guerrieri and her coauthors find that if monetary ...

Neel T. Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, defended Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, in an interview. He also said interest rates should be held steady this month. By ...

Zimbabwe remains committed to curbing inflation, but plans to shift the emphasis of monetary policy to place more emphasis on managing the money supply, the central bank said. Writing in a five-year ...

The Border Tax Is Back, and It’s Still a Terrible Idea Are We All Marxists Now? Audio By Carbonatix A predictable, rules-based monetary policy would deliver the price stability that labor markets ...

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned against seeing monetary policy as a solution to debt problems, implicitly rejecting recent suggestions from France’s far-right party that the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack said on Thursday monetary policy needs to remain in a position where it can help lower inflation pressures, suggesting she leans ...

The policy world is aghast, but President Trump’s desires for monetary affairs aren’t as crazy as conventional wisdom portrays. I see three broad desires: Interest rates should be lower, in part to ...

THE FEDERAL RESERVE is usually run by technocratic consensus. Today it has become a battleground. On September 17th the Fed cut interest rates for the first time since December, by a quarter of a ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

This paper assesses the stance of monetary policy in eleven Sub-Saharan African (SSA) emerging and frontier market economies. We estimate neutral real interest rates using a range of methodologies, ...