Productivity Growth Kept the Economy Humming This Year. Expect More Gains in 2025.

Technology investments, policy, and immigration all have contributed to a 2.6% increase in productivity growth in the past six quarters. Read More

The Economy Is Finally Stable. Is That About to Change?

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s proposals on tariffs, immigration, taxes and deregulation may have far-reaching and contradictory effects, adding uncertainty to forecasts. Read More

What does 2025 hold for interest rates, inflation and the American consumer?

Some people expected a downturn in 2022 – and again in 2023 and 2024 – due to the Federal Reserve’s hawkish interest-rate decisions. The Fed raised rates rapidly in 2022 and held them high throughout ... Read More

Fed’s Kugler Says Immigration, Productivity Gains Have Strengthened Economy

Federal Reserve Gov. Adriana Kugler said Tuesday that a tide of new immigrant workers and a rise in labor productivity have strengthened the U.S. economy, and noted that she and her Fed colleagues ... Read More

An analyst looks ahead to how the US economy might fare under Trump

President-elect Donald Trump won a return to the White House in part by promising big changes in economic policy — more tax cuts, huge tariffs on imports, mass deportations of immigrants working in th ... Read More

US economy added 227K jobs in November, above expectations

WOULD A 4-DAY WORK WEEK WORK IN THE US? That follows a decline ... the CME FedWatch tool. "The economy continues to produce a healthy amount of job and income gains, but a further increase in ... Read More

The Big Question: is the US economy exceptional — or overhyped?

Alongside this productivity boom, the US economy has also taken a pioneering role in tech innovation, with its leading companies more concentrated in the digital economy compared with Europe ... Read More

US economy is 'a little engine that could': What's next for the Fed?

After the November jobs report showed the US economy ... says about the economy amid the Federal Reserve's ongoing rate easing cycle and ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's return to the ... Read More