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US jobless claims fall and retail sales surge, easing recession fears and boosting financial markets.

Last week, the stock markets around the world fell hard. Besides the U.S. markets, for example, the speculation ...

The Epoch Times talked with several financial experts who provided tips on navigating a potential recession.

A senior Federal Reserve official said Monday that the U.S. central bank is prepared to step in with ...

Labor market strains deepen as part-time work for economic reasons surges to multi-year high

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced ...

The U.S. economy is showing signs of softening, including weakening of the labor market, declining price pressures, some ...

The number adds to other labor market data, signaling labor market softening.

By Jeffrey R. Kosnett From Kiplinger's Personal Finance Savers and investors have few causes for complaint. But one ...

Fed policymakers 'certainly don't want to cause a recession when it's unnecessary—that's the balancing act,' Ms. Yellen said.

The Minneapolis Federal Reserve chief said that policymakers need to see 'a lot' more data showing inflation is ...

'Beware of higher rates and recession,' he said.

Commentary President Joe Biden released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2025 on March 11. There’s something in his ...

Commentary We’ve come to expect the worst, but the worst keeps surprising us. It happened again with the ...

Commentary February jobs printed at 275,000 new non-farm jobs this morning, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Commentary By some miracle—actually, by printing the $5.4 trillion that has shown itself in persistent inflation—the United States ...

Commentary When bitcoin first hit $1,000, I figured that all the arguments about its authenticity as a scarce ...

Economists have been waging an intellectual war in the past two years trying to determine when the U.S. ...

Canada yet again dodged the recession bullet after posting modest fourth-quarter growth in 2023, making it likely the ...

Commentary Recently, Democratic Party-cheerleading economist Paul Krugman declared, “Inflation is over. We won.” This is like a robber ...

An analyst warned the US could be entering 'stagflation' territory.

Consumer and state and local government spending were revised higher in the fourth quarter.

Commentary The foundations of economic freedom have been declining around the world for three consecutive years, according to the 2024 ...

Commentary Why are Americans so down on the economy when President Joe Biden’s own statisticians say their boss ...

Commentary For all the White House’s bragging about the strength of the economy, most Americans still don’t approve of ...

A resilient consumer could become a more budget-conscious one this year, experts warn.

How much could lower global growth hurt the U.S. economy?