Past economic cycles show that unemployment starts to tick up ahead of a recession, with wide-scale layoffs coming only later.
More faced hardship in the United States last year, the Census Bureau said, as inflation and the end of subsidies outweighed higher incomes.
Creating a U.S. investment fund to compete against those in China and the Middle East could create more problems than it would solve.
Vice President Kamala Harris has been balancing the challenges of defending “Bidenomics” and charting her own course on the economy.
The former president has proposed using tariffs to fund child care, boost manufacturing, quell immigration and encourage use of the dollar. Economists are skeptical.
The labor market appears to have shifted into a lower gear, reinforcing concerns that businesses have little appetite to hire as interest rates weigh on investment...
Federal Reserve officials are likely to pay close attention to Friday’s jobs report as they move toward their first rate cut since the 2020 pandemic downturn....
Japanese chip companies are tapping billions of dollars and collaborating with foreign firms as part of new government policies that look outward.
The Transportation Department ordered American, Delta, Southwest and United to share more information about their rewards practices to ensure they are fair to consumers and rivals.
Former President Donald J. Trump will call for the creation of a government efficiency commission in an economic speech in New York on Thursday, adopting a...