The recent performance of the US economy has been "the best of any major economy in the world," Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday, a week after the bank cut interest rates for a second ...

Economists expect the Fed to announce another quarter-point rate cut in December, after a quarter-point reduction last week ...

President-elect Donald Trump has been a divisive, unpopular political figure for years, and he remains so. Even as he ...

"The economy is not sending any signals that we need to be in a hurry to lower rates," Powell said Thursday in Dallas.

The U.S. central bank has lowered interest rates by 0.75 point since September.

Elections can have important impacts on the economy, but the most important ones are preceded by some kind of revolution in ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the recent performance of the US economy has been “remarkably good,” giving central ...

An analysis by the nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates Trump’s proposed tariffs would cost a typical U.S. household more than $2,600 a year. “High tariffs also imply a ...

In interviews with Vanity Fair for her cover profile four years ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made these painfully prescient ...

The resulting much higher borrowing costs were expected to tip the United States into recession. It didn’t happen. The ...

To learn more, "Marketplace Morning Report" host David Brancaccio spoke with Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The ...

Wholesale prices in the United States rose last month, remaining low but suggesting that the American economy has yet to ...