Inflation has slowed significantly and growth of the nation's gross domestic product has remained solid, but some economists still expect a mild recession this year. How could a modest downturn happen ...

Productivity is defined as the measurement of “output per unit of input, such as labor, capital or any other resource.” That’s a clunky way of saying that individual workers, businesses, industries, ...

Understanding the relationship between the economy and corporate earnings is one of the most useful skills an investor can develop. Corporate earnings ...

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Consumers, investors and economists alike aren’t just worried that President Donald Trump’s massive new tariffs could reignite inflation this year, but that they could also hurt the U.S. economy.

We at Planet Money are constantly reading the work of economists and other social scientists to glean ideas, evidence and insights about the economy, and, more generally, the confusing world around us ...

When OpenAI’s Sam Altman told reporters in San Francisco earlier this year that the AI sector is in a bubble, the American tech market reacted almost instantly. Combined with the fact that 95 per cent ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The latest state jobs report shows the Houston area economy is slowing, but it's unclear if more data will be coming if the federal government shutdown continues. At the ...

For those of us in the business world, the myriad economic policy initiatives spewing from the White House are both confusing and at times difficult to understand. Certain policies seem to cancel each ...

Miles per gallon (MPG) is well-established as the standard measure of fuel economy. It's so well established, in fact, that few of us question the MPG rating on a daily basis — at least until we ...