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The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds target rate, also known as the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select explains ...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers had been furloughed or working without pay since the government shut down on Oct. 1. After the White House and Congress finally resolved the record-breaking ...

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Trump’s efforts to lay off thousands of federal employees amid the government shutdown. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, an appointee of former ...

Roughly 750,000 government workers are currently furloughed. The federal government shutdown has now reached its 24th day, making it the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history. Surpassing the ...

More than a week into the government shutdown, layoffs of federal workers have begun, following through on administration threats to slash the size of government during the shutdown. In a court filing ...

A government shutdown has furloughed many federal employees in the Asheville area, with some essential workers reporting without pay. Union workers fear the shutdown and threats of further workforce ...

The Federal Reserve lowered rates by a quarter point, but Stephen Miran, a Trump appointee who joined the board this week, voted for a bigger cut. Balancing persistent inflation and a weaker labor ...

Investors are constantly surrounded by headlines about the Federal Reserve’s meetings, their decisions on interest rates, the rate of inflation, supply shocks, output gaps, and all kinds of other ...

Democratic legislators mostly in blue states are attempting to fight back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold funding from their states with bills that aim to give the federal ...

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump‘s executive order requiring documented proof of citizenship for federal voter registration forms on Friday, after several Democrat-led states sued the ...

Section 1. Purpose. The Federal Government is the largest buyer of goods and services in the world –- yet conducting business with the Federal Government is often prohibitively inefficient and costly.