Discover how the Federal Reserve stabilizes the U.S. economy using interest rates, open market operations, and reserve requirements.

A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.

Hundreds of billions of dollars invested by California-based tech giants in AI infrastructure accounted for 92% of U.S. GDP growth this year, according to a Harvard analysis.

The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest economy. Gross domestic product, the broadest ...

Employers added 64,000 jobs in November, according to data delayed by the government shutdown. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6 percent, the highest level in four years.

Discover how coincident indicators reflect current economic conditions, their role in analyzing business cycles, and their impact on understanding economic trends.

The nation's gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic activity — grew at an annual rate of 3% in April, May and June, according to a report Wednesday from the Commerce Department. That's a turnaround from the three previous months when ...

Despite the Federal Government shutdown on Wednesday, the financial markets hit new all-time highs this week. The S&P 500, DJIA, and Russell 2000 all closed at new record highs on Friday (October 3 rd). 1 The Nasdaq hit a new record high on Thursday.

On the right side, you can see the upper diagonal heading up, while the one on the bottom falls to the ground. Now substitute upper-income Americans for the topmost diagonal, heading up and away, and lower-income folks for the one on the bottom and you can ...