It's the sixth inning of a baseball game. The pitcher, by the measures that matter most — how many hits and runs he's allowed ...

Here's how economists identify a recession, and where the U.S. economy currently stands amid market turmoil caused by tariff ...

But President Donald Trump’s impact on the economy so far has been less a matter of turning the ship’s rudder and more ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell cites "high uncertainty" around the impact of Trump administration tariffs on key trading partners.

The Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy meeting ending Wednesday afternoon is highly unlikely to produce the immediate ...

Economists like to say the president does not control the economy. But President Trump's actions suggest he intends to put ...

There’s no cocktail a central banker hates more than high unemployment mixed with high inflation. That cocktail, also known ...

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said that “further progress may be delayed” on inflation because of tariffs. Officials kept ...

The proximate cause of the decline has been an economic growth scare and policy uncertainty. Financial data, stocks, bonds, ...