Videos circulating online show Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, answering basic questions about the American and global economy.

As the Fed fights inflation with a wary eye on the 1970s, some are arguing that Arthur Burns, the Fed chair at the time, gets...

Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s March 21-22 meeting showed that officials were grappling with how much more to lift borrowing costs.

Fed officials are debating how to set policy after bank blowups. Fresh inflation data are unlikely to make such decisions easier.

Economists are watching for the aftereffects of recent bank collapses across many industries. How bad could it get?

As central bankers contemplate whether to raise interest rates at their meeting in May, slowing hiring and wages may give them comfort.

An under-the-radar change to the way regional banks are supervised may have helped the bank’s rapidly growing risks to go unresolved.

A closely watched measure of price increases provided encouraging news as the Fed considers when to stop raising rates.

Officials blamed executives at Silicon Valley Bank for its failure on March 10, while adding that Federal Reserve oversight is in for a revamp.

The bank’s failure sent a shock across the financial system. On Tuesday, senators will grill officials from federal regulators about why it happened.