President Donald Trump’s relentless calls for dramatic reductions in interest rates, along with his ability to make changes to the Federal Reserve’s leadership, is drawing more attention to the way monetary policy decisions are made — and the people who make them.

A team of economists at BofA Global Research outlines why investors might be putting too much stock in a September interest-rate move.

Punitive tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump have caused an uproar in Switzerland. How important are U.S. exports to the economy? And is the country suddenly on the edge of an economic crisis?

Come Thursday, President Trump is expected to impose his latest round of tariffs, with some as high 41% on U.S. imports as those steep rates set to hit more than 60 countries, and they could have an impact on families as they shop for back-to-school items.