Shelley E. Kohan covers the retail industry and is based in New York. The economic blackout later this month aims to hurt large corporations by encouraging consumers not to spend money at major ...

Growth outlooks in the United States and several other countries are projected to slow this year and next, as uncertainty on trade and economic policy takes a toll. By Patricia Cohen Reporting ...

That's our focus below. During Trump's first term, the U.S. faced significant economic challenges, including a big increase in the national debt, disruptions from trade wars, and an historic ...

The Quinnipiac University survey found 54 percent of respondents disapproved of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 41 percent approved of his economic policy so far. The amount of people who ...

The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...

Surveys of professional economic forecasters and financial market data can reveal public perceptions about the future conduct of monetary policy. Current estimates suggest that both professional ...

This week's economic calendar is full of speeches from Federal Reserve officials, with Wall Street keen for insight into the central bank's plans for interest rates and quantitative tightening.

An economic model is a simplified description of reality, designed to yield hypotheses about economic behavior that can be tested. An important feature of an economic model is that it is necessarily ...