The August jobs report on Friday morning confirmed what the market had expected after July's slowing job growth and prior months' revisions: The labor market's Cal Ripken-esque run of indefatigability ...

A brazen presidential attack on statisticians’ dependability may, admittedly, do more damage than a slow-motion crisis caused ...

Job creation is probably worse than we know, but we can’t be sure without a new jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Good point! But what Antoni didn’t grasp (or didn’t want to grasp) was ...

Stock investors have been shrugging off negative economic data and pushing indexes to records. But the relationship between equities and economic data can flip at a moment's notice. When that happens, ...

U.S. politics is apt to conflate disagreements about whether a policy is good or bad with disputes about whether it is constitutional. Reactions to the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Donald Trump ...

Well New York, you did it: The world’s financial capital just elected Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, as its 111th mayor. For all of the enthusiasm of his mostly millennial and Gen Z ...

Democrats won nearly all of last November’s off-year elections by successfully weaponizing the term “affordability.” Inflation is down from Biden-era levels, but it is still too high. The middle class ...

As for whom Americans ages 18-29 blame for the state of the economy, Trump and “corporate greed/large companies” were the ...

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U.S. politics is apt to conflate disagreements about whether a policy is good or bad with disputes about whether it is constitutional. Reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling on President Donald Trump ...