Bloomberg Now that Republicans have terminated the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe, the biggest outstanding question is whether the public will ever see transcripts from dozens of its closed-door witnesses. Republicans on the Intelligence panel are reversing their earlier plans to release those transcripts, while Democrats say they plan to attach the documents to their final report. With Republicans and ...

It is March 2009. The American economy is rapidly collapsing. The previous month, payroll jobs had dropped by a staggering 650,000. The grim outlook stokes gallows humour. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke receives a call from a top Fed official. “Do you want some good news?” the official asks. “Please,” Bernanke responds. “Call somebody else.” In this desperate climate, the ...

How much have benchmark US interest rates risen lately? You may think the correct answer is 25 basis points, or 0.25 percentage point. That’s the amount by which the US Federal Reserve raised its target for overnight interbank rates in December, the only official increase in the past nine months. Unofficially, though, borrowing costs have gone up by another 35 ...