Economists expect GDP to benefit from numerous tailwinds, including lower interest rates, AI spending, and hefty tax refunds.

The November jobs report is landing at an odd time – on a Tuesday in mid-December, instead of the first Friday of the month – due to the lingering impact of the historically long government shutdown.

For many people, the economy is a simple equation: paychecks minus expenses. When it feels like our incomes are growing faster than prices, the economy is in good shape. When they’re not, it’s lousy.

Recession worries are spreading, but analysts don’t expect a dire economic slowdown in 2025 and are looking for growth to reaccelerate next year. Heightened risk factors like a rapidly cooling labor ...

Americans never really agree on the state of the economy. People tend to be biased toward their own situation. If you have a good job, have owned a house long enough that you have a low mortgage rate, ...

On the right side, you can see the upper diagonal heading up, while the one on the bottom falls to the ground. Now substitute upper-income Americans for the topmost diagonal, heading up and away, and ...

Thanks to President Donald Trump's bold policies, it appears that the United States will avoid a recession this year − one that so many liberals were predicting only months ago. Will Democrats put ...

The US remains the world's richest country with a GDP of $29.18 trillion. Each state's GDP compares to that of another country US GDP fell in Q1 this year, the first decline since 2022. The US still ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The global economy is, to put it mildly, in a state of flux. Before the most recent U.S. elections, it was already being buffeted by geopolitical shocks and the prospect of transformative ...

Key US economic events, including Powell’s speech, QT ending, jobs data, and PCE inflation, will drive Bitcoin volatility this week.