Amid tough job market for young Americans, Fed Chair Powell tells students not to despair

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Speaks at Harvard

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a message for young Americans looking for work in a tough job market: Don’t be discouraged, even though job creation remains weak and the threat of artificial intelligence remains. The chairman of the Fed, who gave comments on Monday to an undergraduate economics class at Harvard University, talked a … Read more

Trump has declared inflation “failed” – now the US is expected to have the worst inflation among the G7 countries in 2026.

Trump has declared inflation "failed" - now the US is expected to have the worst inflation among the G7 countries in 2026.

What a difference war makes. In January, President Donald Trump boasted to G7 leaders and others at the World Economic Forum in Davos that his team had “beat” inflation in the US (1) “Grocery prices, energy prices, transportation, mortgages, rents and cars are going down, and they’re going down fast,” he said. At that time, … Read more