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Trump to inspect Fed buildings in Washington
Visit comes as central bank’s chair faces continued flak over renovations bill and refusal to cut rates
Oil shocks create ‘persistent’ labour downturns – IMF paper
Gains for oil-exporting countries are “comparatively modest”, say researchers
Fed hears renewed calls for tuneup of G-Sib surcharge
Failure to revisit 2015 methodology has led to inflated systemic risk scores, experts say
US firms face up to $71bn of extra costs from tariffs – study
Authors say additional complexities mean findings are likely to be on the conservative end of costs
Bessent floats audit of Fed’s perceived failures
Treasury secretary is latest Trump official to attack central bank, but says chair need not step down
BoC survey finds ‘buy Canadian’ trend amid tariff threats
More than half of respondents plan to spend less on US goods and avoid holidaying below 49th parallel
Non-banks pose hidden stability risks – Fed research
Credit lines to NBFIs are off firms’ balance sheets, thereby concealing potential hazards, say authors
Tariffs would reduce jobs and real income in US – new study
San Francisco Fed paper says drops in earnings would be unevenly spread
Barr slams weakening of bank supervisory tests
Fed governor warns deregulation during boom times ushers in crises
Judy Shelton on gold, tariffs and where the Fed went wrong
The potential successor to Jerome Powell discusses why she thinks the Fed is too powerful, why her stance on gold is not a ‘crank’ position, and why she feels events have vindicated her and president Trump on the need for rate cuts
Sino-Egyptian collaboration could reshape global monetary order – expert
MoU provides further evidence of shift towards multipolar world, says professor
Will Fed’s HQ cost overruns be enough for Trump to fire Powell?
Chair’s defenders say administration wants to use renovations bill as pretext for his removal
Fed researchers look at age-old problems in US economy
More adults are moving in with parents and retirement levels normalise post-Covid, studies find
Yield curve affects banks’ ability to lend – Boston Fed study
Central banks should consider effects when calibrating balance sheet policies, say authors
Falling immigration weighing on US GDP – Dallas Fed study
Growth in 2025 likely to be around one percentage point lower than was forecast in 2024, say authors
Former OCC chief on the sting of peeling the Basel III ‘onion’
Michael Hsu warns successors not to cut bank capital or neglect rate risks that destroyed SVB
Splits on FOMC are no bad thing, say experts
Former policy-makers say economic uncertainty means dissent over US rates path is inevitable
AI demands ‘deep organisational changes’ at central banks – paper
NBER study finds around half of Fed roles could be impacted significantly by adoption of technology
Ex-OCC chief urges new approach to AI explainability
Michael Hsu suggests shift from academic analysis to decision-based techniques
Tariffs worsen monetary policy trade-offs and inflation – study
Fed researchers find evidence of persistence in cost pressures stemming from levies
High-emission jobs in US more exposed to shocks – research
Kansas City Fed study says wages in ‘dirty’ industries are rising, but employment growth is not
Fed succession planning: will Trump stick to the script?
The race to succeed Jerome Powell as head of the world’s most powerful central bank has already begun
Replacing migrant labour will prove costly for US agri – research
Study by Kansas City Fed says farm operators may respond by shifting to foreign production
Economists denounce Trump’s ‘bullying’ of Fed chair
Experts also back Powell’s assessment rates would probably be lower were it not for tariffs