Monetary policy guides inflation and economic growth. Learn what it means, the main types, and how central banks manage interest rates and stabilize the economy.

Learn how central banks use forward guidance to shape economic expectations and guide monetary policy decisions. Explore key ...

Monetary policy will require "finely tuned judgments balancing progress" on each side of the Federal Reserve's mandate of ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell accuses the Trump administration of threatening the central bank's independence over interest rate ...

We construct a new dataset of FOMC meeting transcripts from 1966 to 1990 to analyze the sources of heterogeneity in individual monetary policy preferences and study how this heterogeneity shapes ...

Each economic crisis brought on by loose money brings on a “solution” of...looser money. This pattern is not just a threat to ...

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

Zimbabwe remains committed to curbing inflation, but plans to shift the emphasis of monetary policy to place more emphasis on ...

Monetary policy is the area of economic policy dealing with how much money is available in the economy and how easy it is to borrow money. Economics study the effects of monetary policy on growth, ...

In economics, a booming economy where everyone has money to throw around isn't always a good thing. Like an engine, the economy can overheat, causing inflation; everyone has more money, but everything ...

After the interim government kept bank lending rates high for about one and a half years to reduce inflation, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed acknowledged that tight monetary policy alone cannot cool ...

(Yicai) Jan. 7 -- The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, has reaffirmed its stance to maintain a moderately ...