NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with David Wessel of the Brookings Institution about what the subpoena of Fed Chair Jerome Powell ...

From stubbornly high living costs to a softer labor market, economists say these are the forces that will shape the year ...

Most adults (68 percent) now say economic conditions are getting worse, compared with 29 percent who think they’re improving, ...

Trump’s most dramatic economic policy shift has been toward trade protectionism. The president increased tariffs in 2025 to ...

Over the last few years Washington tried to micromanage the economy—and the results speak for themselves. When regulators second-guess business decisions, slow-walk mergers and erect new barriers to ...

The U.S. economy chugs into the new year in stronger shape than many forecasters had expected. But Americans remain wary about the high cost of living.

High tariffs have led to big swings in the U.S. trade deficit this year. The U.S. economy was still expanding at an uneven but somewhat robust pace as summer drew to a close, a trickle of economic ...

The Fed is a separate agency from the U.S. Treasury, but both are responsible for keeping the economy stable. Here's the ...

After years of narrowing wage inequality, the workplace has become a tale of two economies again. This time, unlike in the postpandemic period, trends favor the top 25% of the U.S. workforce, whose ...

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