The managing partner of $6.3 billion Douglass Winthrop Advisors thinks higher inflation and tariff uncertainty could trip up the economy, but he’s still bullish on stocks like Microsoft, Berkshire, and Deere.

While spending soared to almost $12 billion, per one estimate, the data shows a more complicated economic picture.

Job opportunities didn’t shrink as expected in October, but hiring continued to stall and layoffs increased in a month when the US government was shut down and hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed,

If the American economy is a three-legged stool, one of those legs is broken, the other is wobbly and the final one is holding it all up (for now). That’s how Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics described the results of his analysis of ...

U.S. economic activity was little changed in recent weeks, though employment was weaker in about half of the Federal Reserve's 12 districts and consumer spending declined, the U.S. central bank said on Wednesday,

The story of manufacturing in this country is often told through steel, energy or technology. However, one industry that rarely features in that story underpins all of them.

The 38-country OECD now forecasts that the world economy will grow 3.2% this year, down a tick from 3.3% in 2024 but an improvement on the 2.9% it had predicted for 2025 back in June. The organization, which does economic research and promotes international trade and prosperity, expects global growth to slow to 2.9% next year.

The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, “Rethinking Economic Growth,” by Dan Varroney. The United States is the largest and most productive economy in the world, by a wide margin. But it could be so much better. I am reminded of Winston ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For decades, the United States has been the world leader in innovation. Generations of business, political and educational leaders evolved a balanced system of public ...

There are differences between the economic situation of Britain in 2016 and the United States today. Britain’s economy was sagging even before Brexit; the American economy is riding an A.I. boom. The British economy is also more than twice as dependent on trade as the American economy, and thus more vulnerable.