Many of you are Fed watchers, by nature of your jobs in finance, but the vast majority of Americans know little about the Fed, its role in the economy, or the impact of its balance sheet. Everyone in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Portland Metro Chamber and Downtown Portland Clean & Safe released their 2024 State of the Economy report on Thursday — detailing the need to focus on attracting residents ...

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. job market in April cleared a key hurdle in its slow return from the COVID-19 pandemic when a wonky economic chart known as the "Beveridge Curve" finished its ...

Mr. Furman, a contributing Opinion writer, was the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017. The job slowdown in the past few months is significant and concerning.

If you haven’t tried to buy a home lately, the U.S. economy is starting to look kind of, sort of normal. But the housing market is still a mess, and it looks as if it will be that way for a long time.

The U.S. economy is humming — at least on paper. The gross domestic product is consistently on the rise. Job growth finished 2024 on a strong note, beating expectations. And inflation is easing, with ...

The US economy grew 3.1% last year, trouncing widespread calls for a recession and exceeding my relatively sober expectation for 2% growth. The correct way to view the interplay between growth and ...

The May jobs report came out today and showed an economy barely adding any jobs: Just 69,000 were added last month, and the unemployment rate increased. This follows news yesterday that GDP was ...

The bullish euphoria that came from the possibility of a quick return to neutral rates after the Fed's 50 basis point cut in September has faded. But it's been swapped with a different bullish ...