Interventionist fiscal policy may have stopped demand from collapsing. But the intervention is so large that politicians are ...

The survey in question was the Insee services-confidence poll. It showed a cliff-edge drop in expectations from France's ...

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The shape of economic growth this year highlights the widening gap between wealthy Americans and everyone else, economists ...

Weakness among lower-income Americans could spread and "contaminate" other parts of the US economy, El-Erian warned.

The U.S. job market cooled further in the past month, based on a raft of recently released reports. But there is no sign of a ...

A model that uses data from the Federal Reserve System’s Beige Book suggests there is a 24% chance the U.S. economy was ...

Real economic growth in the United States contracted 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025. Although that's an initial estimate, that's a remarkable development because it comes in the middle of a period ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

The report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a private firm that tracks workplace hirings and firings across the country, ...

The economic outlook has become increasingly fragile as the first half of 2025 unfolds. President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on U.S. imports have added a hefty dose of risk to an already volatile ...

In the past three months, economists have changed their outlook for the U.S. to slower growth, higher inflation and greater risk of recession. The changed consensus in The Wall Street Journal’s ...