Is the Fed’s Dual Mandate in Balance? Powell Isn’t Saying.

While Fed officials opted to keep rates steady on Wednesday, Powell stopped short of saying that was because the central bank ...

Fed is still 'hypersensitive' to inflation side of dual mandate

Federal Reserve officials voted to hold interest rates steady at their first FOMC meeting of 2026 on Wednesday, the first ...
The Middletown Press

How keeping down borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans is built into the Fed’s ‘dual mandate’

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For most of us, the main impact tends to be how much we have to pay to borrow to buy a ...
AOL

The Fed doesn’t actually have a ‘dual’ mandate—there’s a third part it rarely mentions, and economists want it to stay that way

If you asked the majority of Americans what the mandate of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) was, few would know and even less would care. Ask economists, Wall Street analysts, and even the Fed ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

How keeping down borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans is built into the Fed’s ‘dual mandate’

What’s the point of monetary policy? For most of us, the main impact tends to be how much we have to pay to borrow to buy a house or car. But for the Federal Reserve, the purpose of its monetary ...
The Telegraph

How keeping down borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans is built into the Fed’s ‘dual mandate’

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Arabinda Basistha, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) What’s the point of ...