Matthew Boesler

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A container ship at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, US, on Friday, April 4, 2025. President Donald Trump blasted China for retaliating against his sweeping tariff plan and vowed his economic policies will never change, as the prospect of a trade war wreaked more havoc on the global economy. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images

JPMorgan says Trump’s tariffs to send US into recession

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

Now Hiring banner in window of FedEx Office storefront, Queens, New York. (Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Personal Finance

You can no longer count on job hopping for higher pay like you could during the pandemic

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

HUAI’AN, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 – A worker produces automotive suspension and shock absorber support products in a car workshop on September 4, 2023 in Huai’an, Jiangsu, China. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s trade war and the pandemic slash China’s share of U.S. imports to their lowest level in 17 years

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 21: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services June 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. Powell testified on the Federal Reserve’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report during the hearing. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Don’t blame the Fed: Inflation would be same today even if interest rates were raised earlier, new research shows

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at the Thomas Laubach Research Conference on “key issues in monetary policy and the economy” held by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors May 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Powell and former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke specifically on the topic of “Perspectives on Monetary Policy”. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Higher worker pay isn’t a major cause of inflation, Fed study finds

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

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‘Overshooting is costly too’: The president of the Chicago Fed warns against raising interest rates too much

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

The Fed raises interest rates by 75 basis points for the third time this year

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

NYC apartment for rent

Personal Finance

Rental costs in the U.S. jump to the highest since 1991, keeping overall inflation high

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, from left, Lael Brainard, vice chair of the board of governors for the Federal Reserve System, and John Williams, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, during a break at the Jackson Hole economic symposium in Moran, Wyoming, US, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Powell signaled the US central bank is likely to keep raising interest rates and leave them elevated for a while to stamp out inflation, and he pushed back against any idea that the Fed would soon reverse course. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Shrinking Fed balance sheet an uphill task, central bankers hear at Jackson Hole

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 23, 2022. Powell gave his most explicit acknowledgment to date that steep rate hikes could tip the US economy into recession, saying one is possible and calling a soft landing “very challenging.” Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Powell’s path to 2% inflation needs luck or, failing that, pain: ‘We can’t afford to be fooled again on this, or else it’s going to get beyond us’

By Craig Torres and Matthew Boesler

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Fed hikes interest rate another half point in effort to curb inflation

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Federal Reserve doubles taper of bond-buying, will raise rates three times in 2022

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, July 23, 2021. The Federal Open Market Committee meets next week to decide rates after the chairman recently defended the central bank’s continued support of the U.S. economy even as inflation hits uncomfortable levels. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg

Federal Reserve may taper bond-buying program soon, rate hike possible in 2022

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg

US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gives a press briefing after the surprise announcement the FED will cut interest rates on March 3, 2020 in Washington DC.

Fed Chair Powell vows central bank is ‘not going to run out of ammunition’ in coronavirus fight

By Christopher Condon, Steve Matthews, and others

Trump Administration Steel Tariffs Aims To Protect And Aid U.S. Steel Industry

New Study Concludes U.S. Tariffs Had More Costs Than Benefits For Manufacturing—The Sector They Intended To Help

By Matthew Boesler and Bloomberg