From stubbornly high living costs to a softer labor market, economists say these are the forces that will shape the year ...

Most adults (68 percent) now say economic conditions are getting worse, compared with 29 percent who think they’re improving, ...

High tariffs have led to big swings in the U.S. trade deficit this year. The U.S. economy was still expanding at an uneven but somewhat robust pace as summer drew to a close, a trickle of economic ...

Trump’s most dramatic economic policy shift has been toward trade protectionism. The president increased tariffs in 2025 to ...

Over the last few years Washington tried to micromanage the economy—and the results speak for themselves. When regulators second-guess business decisions, slow-walk mergers and erect new barriers to ...

A Bloomberg Economics study finds the U.S. could gain 1% GDP growth by abandoning green energy if other nations continue renewable pursuits. But if other countries follow the U.S. and pivot away from ...

The White House has been quite eager to tout that data because U.S. markets appear to be up—a fair bit. Aides often crow ...

The U.S. economy chugs into the new year in stronger shape than many forecasters had expected. But Americans remain wary about the high cost of living.

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. That’s the prevailing view among Wall Street ...

Goldman Sachs economists predict U.S. economic growth will accelerate to 2.6% in 2026, driven by tax cuts, reduced tariff ...

After years of narrowing wage inequality, the workplace has become a tale of two economies again. This time, unlike in the postpandemic period, trends favor the top 25% of the U.S. workforce, whose ...

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