On paper, the United States is in solid shape, with steady growth, low headline unemployment and resilient corporate profits. Yet for millions of households, the day-to-day experience feels closer to ...

The Q1 2025 GDP results are in, and the results were not exactly encouraging. While in a typical quarter the U.S. GDP grows by 2% to 4%, in Q1 2025, the economy actually shrank. Considering that two ...

The probability that NBER will someday determine a national recession began in the US between December 2025 and December 2026 ...

The Great Recession from 2007-09 saw GDP fall 4.3%, the biggest drop since the Great Depression. Deregulation in the 2000s and excessive risk by banks were major causes of the financial crisis.

Key recession signals include the Leading Economic Index, Consumer Confidence Index, plunging lumber prices, and freight ...

Some pros are beginning to declare that a recession is coming soon. Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics chief economist, tweeted on Friday that the U.S. economy “has entered a jobs recession” and told ...

The terms stoke outsized panic in some cases and insufficient caution in others. Lately, the stock market has taken a thrashing. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 have each fallen for seven consecutive weeks.