Monetary policy guides inflation and economic growth. Learn what it means, the main types, and how central banks manage interest rates and stabilize the economy.

This model may define the next generation of global finance, shaped by digital adoption, institutional evolution and ...

We construct a new dataset of FOMC meeting transcripts from 1966 to 1990 to analyze the sources of heterogeneity in individual monetary policy preferences and study how this heterogeneity shapes ...

Discover how the monetary conditions index (MCI), which was developed by the Bank of Canada, evaluates economic conditions using interest and exchange rates.

CFR’s Global Monetary Policy Tracker compiles data from 54 countries around the world to highlight significant global trends in monetary policy. Who is tightening policy? Who is loosening policy? And ...

RBI Monetary Policy 2025: RBI monetary policy: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) revised inflation forecast downward to 3.1% for 2025–2026 from 3.7% that was earlier projected with Q2 at 2.1%, Q3 at 3.1 ...

Once upon a time, not that long ago actually, the federal deficit and national debt mattered. In 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “We’re just taking out a credit card from the Bank ...

At the monetary policy assessment of 9 and 10 December 2025, the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank decided to leave ...

The present monetary inflation without break is the longest on record. So, it's difficult to know how the current ...

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

OP-ED. Olivier Garnier, the chief economist at the Banque de France, argues in an op-ed for Le Monde that central banks have ...

Monetary liabilities are balances your business owes for certain accounts established by your business operations or the legal structure of your company. In most cases, a monetary liability is a fixed ...