U.S. economy

President-elect Donald Trump threatened to take back the Panama Canal and more in his first rally speech since winning the election. A U.S. fighter jet was shot down near Yemen. ...

US job growth accelerated much more than anticipated last month. According to data released by the Bureau of ...

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

Remark comes in response to Office of Management and Budget director's view of 'a strong economic recovery' and ...

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 ...

The engine that has been driving prices higher (and the purchasing power of our currency lower) is not ...

Commentary While the White House lectures on the strength of the economy, Americans are drowning in credit card debt, which ...

Commentary One of the most dangerous things that a government can do is to present a glossy picture ...

Commentary It’s been a tough adjustment for all of us to realize that government economic data can no ...

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 ...

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

Commentary WEIRTON, W.Va.—Most people in this town will tell you they’d rather have taken a physical punch to ...

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 ...

Commentary Here’s an odd story from ABC News: “Red state economies are surging under Biden. Here’s why.” Subheadline: ...

Commentary President Joe Biden is boasting about the recent stock market rally. He’s right that stocks have been ...

Commentary Business headlines say that inflation is down, yet countless Americans are struggling, particularly with finding somewhere affordable ...

Commentary Both chambers of Congress are locked in fierce battles over spending legislation. A “supplemental” package has found bipartisan ...

Commentary The following probably will not shock you. Still it contradicts everything you have been promised for months. ...

Commentary Fresh gross domestic product (GDP) numbers came in, and it was a blowout. The kind of blowout ...

Commentary U.S. Steel, the world’s first billion-dollar company, is being sold for scrap. And Washington made it happen. ...

Commentary It looked for all the world like a cold open for Saturday Night Live. President Joe Biden ...

Commentary President Joe Biden recently took to a stage in North Carolina to tout his economic agenda, which ...