On Friday, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics—the apolitical agency that ...

President Donald Trump is calling for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors to usurp the power of Fed Chair Jerome Powell ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order slapping tariffs on many of America's trading partners but the new duties ...

The U.S. stock market had its worst day since May after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and President ...

In a second surprise economic policy development, the door for Trump to make an imprint on a Federal Reserve with which he clashes almost daily for not lowering interest rates opened much earlier than ...

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President Donald Trump accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of "building a palace for himself," warning he's "not ...

Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler announced that she will step down next Friday, opening up a spot on the central ...

Trump called for the firing of the Labor statistics official after data earlier showed employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, while job gains for the previous two months were largely erased.

Trump in a post on his social media platform alleged that the figures were manipulated for political reasons and said that ...