The incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an ...

In our polarized political age, it’s rare that 70% of Americans agree on anything. But right now, 70% of Americans agree that ...

But a president who built a powerful political movement partly on channeling heartland grievances over the faded American ...

The U.S. economy grew at a 2 percent pace in the first three months of the year, as higher investment and a rebound in ...

The U.S. economy grew at a slower rate than previously thought in the fourth quarter after the Commerce Department released its first revision of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the ...

Gross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, a period including first ...

Did decades of low inflation make the public far more unforgiving when it finally did surge?

Real GDP rose at an annualized rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, below the 2.8% forecast. That's short of the growth in the previous two quarters but better than the first quarter's ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

Senior Trump administration officials are forecasting a boom for the U.S. economy in 2026, driven by Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and historically large tax refunds. "This quarter — the first ...