The US economy shrank slightly less in the beginning of the year than previously reported, new data shows, but it was still the first quarterly decline since 2022, in a sign of how President ...

The GOP's advantage on the economy is no surprise to conservatives. Donald Trump's focus on the economy is why Americans elected him president.

But, we haven't seen anything like that now." The U.S. economy is far less dependent on foreign oil than it was back in the 1970s, Powell added.

The Commerce Department released its third estimate of U.S. gross domestic product for the first quarter and found the economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.5%.

The US economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in an unexpected ...

President Trump's sweeping tariff plan would cut deficits by $2.8 trillion over 10 years while shrinking the economy, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

NPR's Steve Inskeep spoke with Mester, now a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, about what the Fed does and why its independence is fundamental to the U.S. economy.

The U.S. economy, which weathered false recession alarms in 2023 and 2024, is entering another uncomfortable summer. Job growth held steady in May, with the economy adding 139,000 jobs.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist for New Century Advisors, what the latest job figures tell us about the state of the economy.