Scott Bessent, the intrepid U.S. Treasury Secretary, once floated an idea so wild it made Wall Street spill its martini: a “shadow Fed chair.” Last October, Bessent suggested naming Jerome Powell’s successor more than a year early,

All that matters is numbers, pure numbers. Quantity over quality,” one Immigrations and Customs Enforcement insider told The Post.

The analysis comes as Trump pushes Congress to send the final product to his desk to become law by Fourth of July.

The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady. Investors will be keeping a close eye on Fed officials’ latest economic projections—known as the “dot plot.” Any variance between the most bearish and most bullish officials might hold a key to the future of U.

Trump has griped the Federal Reserve is losing a contest with the European Central Bank to cut interest rates? Is it a contest? And is the Fed losing?

The U.S. economy is mostly in good shape but that isn’t saving Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell from a spell of angst.

Even if the Federal Reserve thought a window had opened for it to resume its interest rate cutting campaign, there's a risk it may now hold back, precisely because of the relentless political pressure President Donald Trump has put on it to ease policy.

Donald Trump da un nuevo giro a su llamado para que la Reserva Federal recorte la tasa de interés: ahora afirma que es clave para reducir el costo de la deuda pública.

In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months,

Many critics say the administration is scrapping a nonpartisan, merit-based civil service in favor of a biased, politicized system.

Lawyers for Harvard had urged the court to to block Trump's efforts to revoke its credentials to host foreign students, and block foreign students from traveling to the US to study at the university.