Wage growth is finally outrunning inflation, and that shift is quietly rewiring the outlook for the United States economy.

And if 2026 forecasts are correct, we may have to keep waiting.

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The economy in 2025 was filled with contradictions, as growth was healthy while hiring slowed, inflation stayed elevated and unemployment rose.

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

Looking ahead, Trump's supply-side policies are set to be fully executed, and the latest data suggest that the trends of ...

Economic indicators going into 2026 are confounding. Even with giant tax refunds, making financial predictions is impossible.

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For a century, economists have taught us to fear falling prices. But the deflation phobia stems from a misreading of the ...

There’s any number of directions tariff rates could go—a small increase, a big increase, no increase—from here forward. And depending on that, there’s a lot of different directions that monetary ...

The adoption of labor-saving artificial intelligence technology could help push down inflation to pre-pandemic levels, but it ...