Sophisticated private sources could provide a fuller picture of the state of the economy. But the government is not even ...

Gary Cohn, IBM vice chair and director of the National Economic Council in the first Trump term, said for companies in a "very difficult environment," cutting down on the cost of labor is "the one ...

What matters more: actual economic performance or the perception of it? Fundamentals clearly influence public opinion: if the economy is growing rapidly, people tend to notice. Yet perception can both ...

U.S. employers added nearly a million fewer workers than previously believed, according to a Labor Department report out Sept ...

Jerome Powell’s Fed faces labor market weakness as Wall Street bets on rate cuts, with Jeremy Siegel and Goldman Sachs ...

Federal Reserve policymakers projected inflation will rise to 3% in 2025 while unemployment will reach 4.5% as the central ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics remains without a permanent leader. President Donald Trump fired commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Aug. 1, and claimed that the monthly jobs numbers were “rigged” to make ...

While the numbers themselves may be accurate, the context is usually what prevents you from being misled. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the August Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...

The Federal Reserve weighs its first rate cut since December as wealthier consumers prop up spending levels and the job ...