central bank

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Former Fed governor Kevin Warsh told senators he would run an independent central bank, saying Trump has never asked him to commit to cutting interest rates and that he wouldn’t have agreed to do so.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

The central bank primarily uses the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, which tracks the prices American consumers pay for goods and services, to evaluate inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Lee pointed secondly to the focus on forward guidance, a tool used by the central bank since the early 2000s to inform the public about the likely direction of monetary policy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

The Senate Banking Committee also asked Trump’s pick for Fed chair about his pre-nomination argument that AI-driven productivity gains would give the central bank room to cut interest rates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker