President Trump bragged Tuesday that his tariffs were responsible for the “great” surging US economy. Trump took the victory lap just after the Commerce Department announced the economy had grown at a ...
The U.S. economy is weaker than it seemed a month ago, and lower interest rates may not be the answer.
The US economy was on shaky footing even before President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, a battery of new data released Friday showed.
Oil prices are retesting $100 a barrel, but inflation expectations have barely nudged, a warning sign for markets, Albert Edwards says.
A reading on the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge released Friday for January, before the Iran war, showed inflation remained sticky, reinforcing the case for the central bank to hold ...
Follow along with Investopedia's live coverage of Friday's inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Commerce Department on Friday released the January 2026 PCE inflation report, which showed the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge remained stubbornly high for consumers.
PCE inflation in January was 2.8% year over year. The numbers predate the Iran conflict.
The largest prediction market puts the odds of a recession at about 29%.
The bull case for economic growth has weakened as oil spikes. Goldman raised its recession odds this week and others see a slowdown looming.
As the war with Iran continues, some economists and business leaders are concerned it could kick-start a recession. Iran has ...
Sure, winning the Nobel Prize in economics may be one of the crowning achievements of David Card's storied career. And, yeah, he gets to split more than a million dollars with the two other winners of ...
I’ve long thought that calling Adam Smith the father of economics seriously understates his significance. In some ways he was indeed the first economist, and The Wealth of Nations, published 250 years ...
Hiring fizzled in February, a sign of unexpected weakness in the labor market that sent warning signs flashing through the broader economy. Employers slashed 92,000 jobs last month, the Labor ...
The economy’s warning lights might not yet be flashing red, but they are certainly flashing yellow. The worst job numbers since the Great Recession, the slowest economic growth since COVID, and the ...
Recent research has found that tariffs can reduce economic activity to a point where inflation starts to fall. But if that happens, the economy would be dealing with much bigger problems.
The hope at the start of the year was that U.S inflation would slow and give the Federal Reserve the scope to cut interest ...
The inflation data captures the period before the Iran war broke out. Since then, oil prices have surged, driving inflation ...
The Labor Department released the February 2026 consumer price index (CPI), which showed that inflation remained elevated ...
Two financial experts give their take on what spending habit changes might indicate that a recession is looming.