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Lawrence Summers, who served as Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, rocked the Democratic establishment last year by predicting that his party’s ...

In February 2021, Larry Summers was right and I was wrong. The former Treasury secretary warned that President Biden’s stimulus ...

The current inflation was sparked by fiscal policy—the government printed or borrowed about $5 trillion, and sent checks to people ...

The Bank of Japan is fighting an increasingly lonely battle. So far it has beaten back speculators testing its resolve ...

Is the Federal Reserve reviewing the connection between high inflation and the past two years’ U.S. monetary policy? A reporter ...

A battle has broken out in bond markets, pitting investors’ fears of inflation against their concerns about slowing growth. The ...

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto During my childhood in the 1970s, another time when inflation plagued household budgets, my father pinched pennies ...

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde Photo: john thys/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images What the European Central Bank taketh, it giveth back. ...

The U.S. economy is starting to slow under the combined weight of soaring inflation and climbing interest rates—including the highest ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks about interest rates, the economy and monetary policy actions at the Federal Reserve Building, ...