Data on spending this week shows that consumers are shopping big for the holidays despite inflation and economic worries. By Kailyn Rhone Even at a time of inflation, tariff concerns and economic ...

Fed report shows slight decline in employment in recent weeks Government shutdown hampered demand in some Fed districts, report says Policymakers divided heading into December 9-10 meeting Nov 26 ...

The Trump administration is soon expected to propose a plan that would cap loans for a number of advanced degrees—including master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing—and it’s gone viral on social media ...

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 ...

Being the econ nerds that we are here at Planet Money and The Indicator, this Thanksgiving we want to give thanks for economic insights that improved our lives, solved a problem, or just plain ...

Consumers nationwide Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, will take part in an economic blackout through Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with organizers of the "Mass Blackout" protest targeting major ...

The United States announced new, higher tariff rates this year. Tariffs can affect supply chains, investment, and firms’ input costs, resulting in supply-side effects such as higher inflation and ...

Mr. Giridharadas is the author of “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” and the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the ...

Something in the US economy isn’t adding up, and it’s rattling the people charged with wrangling inflation and keeping the labor market intact. US companies have sharply slowed their hiring this year, ...