Solid jobs data and a soft inflation reading for January are welcome news for President Trump. But the bigger economic ...

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The U.S. economy opened 2026 on better footing, with the latest jobs report showing employers added 130,000 jobs in January.

Economists have warned that the country's economic divide may no longer be purely between its richest and poorest members.

The economy will grow because of higher productivity, aided in part by AI, says Michael Pearce of Oxford Economics. But people aren’t core to that story.

From markets to spending to debt, usually reliable indicators that forecast where the economy is headed are proving deeply ...

The U.S. economy added jobs at a steady pace to start the year, as the Labor Department reported that employers hired 130,000 workers in January 2026, beating expectations.

Explore how indexing tracks economic trends, supports passive investing, and serves as a benchmark tool for comparing market ...

Explore how the guns-and-butter curve illustrates opportunity cost and economic trade-offs between military and domestic spending, with key historical examples.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook, its first full ten-year ...

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