WASHINGTON — Economic reports released on Friday weighed on investors, showing that consumer confidence has fallen this month and that American factories barely increased their output in May. ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The former governors Jeb Bush of Florida and Haley Barbour of Mississippi, two of the Republican Party’s most outspoken advocates of overhauling the nation’s immigration laws, ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The Council of Economic Advisers will have a prominent voice in White House discussions after President Obama named his longtime adviser Jason Furman as chairman of the panel on Monday. ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The Council of Economic Advisers will have a prominent voice in White House discussions after President Obama named his longtime adviser Jason Furman as chairman of the panel on Monday. ... Read more
SOCIAL SECURITY is expected to run out of reserves by 2033 — a mere 20 years from now. With the public apparently opposed both to tax increases and to benefit cuts, the main politically feasible way to ... Read more
Investors cannot read minds. Yet many of them are spending a lot of energy trying to get inside the head of Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, and making bets on what they think he ... Read more
The American economy may be the world’s biggest, but when it comes to job creation since the recession hit at the end of 2007, it is far from a leader. Indeed, contrary to the widespread ... Read more
Hiring in the United States is inching up — but not quickly enough to put much of a dent in the backlog of nearly 12 million unemployed workers left stranded by the recession and its aftermath. ... Read more
Home construction is booming in the United States, but it remains severely depressed. That seemingly contradictory statement was illustrated by construction spending statistics issued this week by ... Read more
American employers added 175,000 jobs in May, almost exactly the average monthly job growth over the last year, the Labor Department reported Friday, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent from ... Read more