The Federal Reserve has likely come across your radar at some point. Often referred to as simply "the Fed," this central banking system of the United States typically meets eight times a year to make ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve System is the nation’s central bank, which is run by the Board of Governors and 12 regional banks. It was created on December 23, 1913, following a series of financial panics.

Whatever happens at September’s US Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting will pale in comparison to a wholesale rethinking of the US central bank’s design, a possibility stirred by Donald Trump’s latest ...