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.

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

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 ...

Adjustments to US monetary policy will need to be finely tuned and based on progress towards both stable prices and maximum employment, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has said.

In his December press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank was embarking on a "new phase" of monetary policymaking. Just what that entails will play out over the next ...

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

Learn how accommodative monetary policy by central banks expands the money supply and stimulates economic growth through lower interest rates.

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 ...

At the monetary policy assessment of 9 and 10 December 2025, the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank decided to leave ...

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