Steve Swinney is CEO of Kodiak Building Partners, a leader in the building materials industry that manages locally led companies. Recent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are a welcome ...

Eliminating the longstanding economic cycle would be “the holy grail of central banking,” said James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, the global bank. “The Fed’s ...

The federal government routinely uses government spending and taxes to help offset the highs and lows of the U.S. business cycle. While government spending ... This likely contributed to real economic ...

The National Bureau of Economic Research or NBER determines the ... It is harder for companies to find workers and it is later in the business cycle. However, Trump’s boasts about how many ...

In this Economic Letter, we expand the proxy funds rate (Doh and Choi 2016 and Choi, et al. 2022) from a monthly to a weekly frequency to study the anatomy of the recent tightening cycle. The weekly ...

It's one of the four stages of the economic cycle: growth, peak, contraction (or recession) and trough. Some analysts use a rough rule of thumb to identify recessions: Two consecutive quarters of ...

Last week’s report on economic output recharged speculation ... “It’s important for the Business Cycle Dating Committee to sift through the indicators and make their decision in a flexible ...

WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve moved its management of the post-pandemic economic recovery into ... of when it halted its tightening cycle in 2006, the Fed said that "in ...