Experts believe headline inflation accelerated in September, giving the Fed caution as it weighs further rate cuts.

Economists think inflation around the U.S. continued to climb in September, edging farther away from the Fed's 2% annual ...

Markets work best when many companies vie for customers’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, carving up sales between them. Economists therefore need a measure of whether markets are ...

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, ...

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a ...

“Republicans have shut down the government because they do not want Americans to have affordable health care,” Sen. Angela ...

A new, five-day economic blackout is happening now. Blackout the System is a new group leading a five-day economic and labor blackout. The People's Union USA also is leading national boycotts Amazon, ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal's chief economics commentator, about the jobs report, tariffs facing legal challenges, and U.S. government investment in private companies.

New boycotts of Amazon, Uber and Pepsi Co. are happening all September, and a new group is calling for an extended national economic blackout this fall. These are the latest in a long string of ...

The government shutdown delayed the jobs report and may postpone other key economic data. Here is what economists are looking at instead.

President Donald Trump wanted the CEO of a major corporation removed, and then the federal government bought a significant chunk of that same company, Intel. There's work to bend the Federal Reserve ...