Kevin Warsh was sitting in the East Room of the White House when President Donald Trump took a beat to praise the former central banker. At the January 2020 signing ceremony, Trump turned to the former Federal Reserve governor —…
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Little warning signs are flashing across the economy. The big question is what to make of them. With consumers growing more pessimistic, households and global businesses alike are yanking back on new spending and investments. And a growing pile of data points…
China has signaled that it is becoming more open to engaging in trade negotiations with the Trump administration, according to two blogs closely associated with China’s state apparatus, even as Beijing maintains a defiant stance in the trade war. After three months of bluster…
The White House on Friday will release a partial budget proposal that calls for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending in the next fiscal year, a person familiar with the matter confirmed. The upcoming “skinny budget” will propose cuts…
President Trump this week revived a longstanding threat against Jerome H. Powell when he accused the Federal Reserve chair of “playing politics” and moving too slowly to lower interest rates. But privately, according to people close to Mr. Trump, the…
The Trump administration is using personal data normally protected from dissemination to find undocumented immigrants where they work, study and live, often with the goal of removing them from their housing and the workforce. At the Department of Housing and…
Even when India was staring down the barrel of a 27 percent tariff on most of its exports to the United States, business executives and government officials saw an upside. India’s biggest economic rival, China, and its smaller competitors like…
There are not many certainties in the world of money, but this traditionally has been one of them: When life turns scary, people take refuge in American government bonds. Investors buy U.S. Treasuries on the assumption that, come what may…
Britain has watched President Trump’s tariffs with a mix of shock, fascination and queasy recognition. The country, after all, embarked on a similar experiment in economic isolationism when it voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Nearly nine years…
President Trump’s rapidly escalating trade war with China has resulted in eye-watering tariffs on products exchanged between the countries and scrambled prospects for many global businesses that depend on the trade. And there is no end in sight. The Trump…
