Just to ensure maturing paper does not reduce the pace of its money printing.
Like celebrities in the 1950s, the Fed is going out West to get a divorce - from financial markets
The number of regional Federal Reserve banks calling on the central bank to raise the rate it charges commercial banks for emergency loans rose to eight in July, minutes from the Fed's discount rate meeting released on Tuesday showed.
If changes aren't made, the euro zone could suffer a break-up, economist Joseph Stiglitz says.
thanks to a big fall in payments in other currencies, globaltransaction service provider SWIFT said on Wednesday.
Four major world banks are set to announce the creation of a new blockchain-based currency, and are hoping to make it the global standard for settlements.
There's something fishy about this "new all-time highs" rally of 2016.
The gold standard is the closest we have come to sound money. The greatest advantage of a gold standard is to greatly limit the government’s ability to engage in legal counterfeiting.
Banks don’t have to use the US banking system anymore; they can send real-time payments internationally using the Ripple protocol.
A 'reform' law that has only made things harder and more expensive for Americans
ITALY's financial crisis could bring down the entire eurozone unless the nation’s crumbling economy is allowed to rack up more debt.
In 1961, families shelled out a third of their income on taxes and just over half on basic necessities. Today we pay just under half on taxes and a third on those necessities
Mayor of Amatrice says half of the town is ‘isn’t here any more’ after severe earthquake hits central Italy and is felt in Rome
Since 2000, gold has greatly outperformed every other asset you can think of. So in that sense, gold performs an important insurance function.
The true value of gold is much higher than the spot price quoted in the market. This is due to several factors, but the most important reason is misunderstood by just about every economist and monetary scientist in the world today.
Despite whatever mind-bending picture of “reality” Yellen attempts to present on Friday that causes whatever immediate knee-jerk price reactions in markets that her words always create
Gold futures settle in the green Tuesday in volatile trading, tracking moves in the dollar with gains limited by strength in U.S. equities.
It is one of the greatest stories of our time, how the world’s central banks went “all in” on monetary “easing” and somehow the world finds itself short of both money and economy
In short, Europe is a financial and political powder keg. The ECB is bluffing a $40 trillion debt market (including bank loans) and the Brussels apparatchiks are bluffing 340 million citizens.
The main risks Bank of America's analysts believe the global economy faces are pretty clear cut.