U.S. economists may be barely holding on by their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, ...

Americans are increasingly voicing concern about the shutdown's impact on the U.S. economy, as a big majority feel Congress ...

A collective angst is taking root. Maybe you feel it watching the news, scrolling social media, standing in line at the ...

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the official third-quarter GDP report release, although real-time estimates from ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates last week, but the decision was far from unanimous. Two members of the Federal Open ...

Trump lambasted Powell this week, calling him “Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell” in a speech to Asian business leaders .

In past shutdowns, estimates of lost economic activity have reached into the billions of dollars. In the context of a $30 trillion economy, that’s not a lot. But on the margins, economists say it can ...

This isn’t a purely partisan trend. Over the last month, the perception that the economy is getting worse increased by 7 ...

Turns out that divergence is showing up in corporate America, too. Profits are surging at the biggest companies — while ...

Tariffs and uncertainty were already making the economy hard to read. The loss of government data during the shutdown has ...

History has shown that the economy typically rebounds from a shutdown within a couple of months. But each day it drags on brings a greater risk that the economy won’t just bend, it will start to break ...

Economics was a bystander to the Industrial Revolution and rather ruined the 20th century; it should understand that it is best conceived as a leisure activity.