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A quarterly review finds that the U.S. economy’s increasingly K-shaped nature is making American consumption patterns uneven ...

The federal shutdown — one month long and counting — has an obvious economic impact for government workers who aren’t receiving paychecks and food aid recipients who could lose their benefits Nov. 1.

The word “inflation” is everywhere today, and it continues to shape how people feel about the economy. That’s the case despite the pace of inflation retreating from its high of June 2022, when prices ...

President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969 - but red flags remain The U.S. labor market heated up in December, adding more jobs than expected ...

The U.S. economy didn’t get any better during the longest government shutdown in history, but the good news is that it probably didn’t get much worse.

As is often the case, President Trump is half-right. But he’s going way overboard when he insists that, “in many ways this is the greatest economy in the history of America.” It’s not, and the reasons ...

According to several economic data points, the foundation of the U.S. economy appears to be breaking -- and Wall Street has, ...

Democrats are faced with a sticky problem: The economy is nearing full employment after businesses added 210,000 jobs in November, labor force participation climbed to its highest level since the ...

The best book to read if you are interested in the history of economic ideas. First published in 1953, it covers some of the most consequential early economists, from Adam Smith to Thomas Malthus to ...

For at least the past half century, most economists have viewed the history of slavery in the United States as morally abhorrent but economically advantageous. The argument has run that allocating ...

Since Tuesday’s big Democratic electoral victories, I’ve been seeing some speculation to the effect that the 2024 election may be marked by a reverse coattail effect: that President Biden, whose poll ...