The US stock market just blew past every record in history, as the capitalization-to-GDP ratio hit 208% this week, jumping nearly 43 percentage points since April. That crushes the previous high of 206% from February and more than doubles the ratio from nine years ago.

President Trump escalates pressure on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates by targeting the Federal Reserve's costly renovation plans. Trump's tactics include appointing allies to review the renovations and publicly criticizing Powell,

President Donald Trump has demanded a record-breaking 300 basis point interest rate cut and announced steep new tariffs on 16 nations.

President Donald Trump keeps turning up the pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower short-term rates, publicly expressing his dissatisfaction with Chair Jerome Powell. Financial regulators are tweaking capital requirements,

But their presence made a lot more sense when the new commissioners spoke up — and promptly took aim at one of Trump’s political foes, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Powell has resisted Trump’s demands to lower interest rates.

President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.

President Trump is putting pressure on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates, and has been critical of the Fed's $2.5 billion office renovation.

The debate over how and when the tariffs will affect prices has divided central bank policymakers over the trajectory for interest rates.