The optimism is cautious but real. After two years of inconsistent theatrical recoveries, December 2025 is beginning to feel ...

Many commentators today observe the U.S. economy is increasingly bifurcated, with the rich getting richer while poor and middle-class families are falling farther behind. Some refer to it as a ...

After years of narrowing wage inequality, the workplace has become a tale of two economies again. This time, unlike in the postpandemic period, trends favor the top 25% of the U.S. workforce, whose ...

As Americans have raised concerns about rising prices, a possible recession, a cooling labor market and an ongoing government shutdown in recent months, economists have warned the U.S. economy may be ...

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That old saying has taken on a new label in 2025. America’s economy is increasingly “K-shaped.” The term is used to describe when “wealthy consumers do ...

For Hannah Szretter, the government shutdown is more than just a political fight. The 26-year-old Buffalo-area resident said she has had Type 1 diabetes since she was 10 and also now has a mental ...

If the U.S. economy was really flying high, the Federal Reserve wouldn’t have lowered interest rates last month. So what’s really going on? The economy was still expanding at a decent pace before the ...

The stockmarket is not the economy, as the old investing cliché goes. That is obvious enough to anyone paying attention in America this year. President Donald Trump’s tariff fervour has dented growth, ...

You have been warned: Warnings about the overinflated prospects of a still-hypothetical "AI economy" continue to mount. Some analysts expect the AI bubble to burst sooner rather than later, arguing ...

Consumer spending climbed, boosting growth, government data showed. The U.S. economy expanded significantly more than initially estimated over a recent three-month period, suggesting robust growth ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there ‘is no risk-free path’ as the central bank tries to keep inflation low and stable while promoting healthy labor markets. Photo: Sophie Park/Bloomberg ...