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Jul 25, 2024
In making economic decisions — whether to buy a house, take a new job, allocate retirement savings or invest in a business — it is usually better to leave your politics...
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Jul 8, 2024
The labor market is showing signs of weakness, with employers easing hiring and a rising share of jobless Americans.
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Jun 11, 2024
Wednesday afternoon, the fate of global financial markets will hang on an array of dots that give clues into how much rate-cutting the Federal Reserve will...
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May 31, 2024
When Americans go to the polls in November, they will be deciding the playing field for the biggest battle in memory over the direction of U.S. fiscal policy.
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May 2, 2024
When you use a pressure cooker, it can take an annoyingly long time after your dish is done cooking for the pot to cool to the point where you can safely open the lid. And so it...
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Apr 30, 2024
Is its interest rate policy really doing as much work as the Fed itself has assumed?
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Apr 19, 2024
With the world's finance ministers gathered in Washington this week, one topic is coming up over and over: A surge in the value of the U.S. dollar against most other major currencies...
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Apr 18, 2024
We may or may not be entering a new era in which interest rates and inflation are persistently higher than in the recent past. But if we are experiencing such a shift, it...
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Mar 14, 2024
A surge in immigration last year helps explain the economy's striking resilience — and if sustained, could allow the job market to keep booming without stoking...
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Mar 6, 2024
When January inflation numbers came in hot last month, one big reason was a spike in "owner's equivalent rent" (OER), the concept the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses to account for...
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Mar 5, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence could create more rapid change in the workplace and the economy than previous waves of tech advances.
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Feb 6, 2024
The Fed's strategy over the last two years has been to push interest rates upward to the point that they are restrictive, slowing down economic activity. But robust growth...
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Feb 1, 2024
The United States economy grew faster than any other large advanced economy last year — by a wide margin — and is on track to do so again in 2024.