the Fed

noun

US, informal

: the group of officials (the Federal Reserve Board) who control the U.S. government's central banking system (the Federal Reserve System).

The Fed has decided to cut interest rates.

Examples of the Fed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s also concern that after more than five years of inflation being above the Fed’s 2% target — and a topic of national conversation — consumer expectations for inflation could be affected, making the Fed’s job of returning price stability more difficult. — Catarina Saraiva, Fortune, 28 June 2026

But the Fed warned that 2026 is likely to end with much higher rates of inflation than previously anticipated. — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026

The former hedge fund manager huddled with the Fed’s then-chair, Jerome Powell, and the CEOs of systemically important banks in April to discuss the risks posed by Anthropic’s Mythos. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 26 June 2026

The shift higher in the Fed's preferred inflation gauge comes amid an increasingly hawkish tone on inflation from the central bank's new chairman, Kevin Warsh. — Sean Conlon,hugh Leask, CNBC, 26 June 2026

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