Trump in 2016, defied Republican free-trade orthodoxy by supporting the imposition of tariffs, a position he has maintained ...

US goods and services trade gap shrank nearly 11% from the prior month to US$52.8 billion, Commerce Department data showed on ...

Something may not be quite right in the U.S. economy, and it’s not just a one-off jobs report that points to that. All the noise around the August Bureau of Labor Statistics report was about President ...

If America’s economy has a prosperous holiday season, the data suggests, we’ll have rich folks to thank. The top 10% of earners now account for roughly half of all consumer spending, according to a ...

Director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, Rice University The economic consequences of the current federal government shutdown hinge critically on how long it lasts. If it is ...

The U.S. economy continues to grow despite persistent recession forecasts, supported by ample liquidity in the financial system. Federal Reserve's aggressive monetary expansion during the pandemic ...

Private payrolls plunged in September, complicating the picture for the US economy as policymakers and investors struggle to assess the state of the labor market amid a government shutdown. The Bureau ...