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.

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 ...

Lingering core inflation is complicating central banks' efforts to balance growth and inflation risks. While inflation is way down from its peak levels in 2022 and 2023, it has stopped falling in many ...

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

The team at Infrastructure Capital Advisors tracks the Global Monetary Base, defined as currency in circulation plus bank reserves, as an indicator of current and future interest rates. This article ...

Global investment opportunities are set to widen meaningfully in 2026 as easing monetary policy, a weakening US dollar and ...

Christian Catalini, co-founder and chief Strategy Officer at Lightspark and founder of MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab (he was also previously the Co-Creator of the failed Diem / Libra projects), has shared ...

As 2025 begins, the trajectory of U.S. monetary policy remains one of the most hotly debated topics in financial and economic circles. Following a tumultuous 2024 marked by persistent inflationary ...

Global central banks are no longer marching in step. The United States Federal Reserve has recently cut its policy rate by 25 basis points, adjusting it to a range of 4-4.25 per cent. In contrast, the ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released its macroeconomic outlook for 2025, displaying a nuanced picture of the nation ...

Lingering core inflation is complicating central banks' efforts to balance growth and inflation risks. Futures curves suggest further rate cuts could be ahead for multiple countries. 2024 was a global ...