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

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

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Gaps in data because of the government shutdown make a hash of the latest federal reports on inflation and economic growth.

If the president had gotten his way, inflation would surely be rocketing again, the economy would be overheating and the Fed ...

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

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 ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments Wednesday appeared to heighten financial experts’ fears that tariffs on goods imported to the U.S. could bring about an economic condition known as ...

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