New data also suggests the Eaton Fire may have landed a harder short-term hit to the local economy than Palisades.

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Su-Lin Ong, chief economist for Australia at RBC Capital Markets, will retire at the end of January after nearly three decades at the bank. Ong joined RBC in Sydney in 1998 and was appointed chief ...

The markets are at or near all-time highs these days, but the bears are still roaming Wall Street. And few are roaring louder than Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s. Zandi, for months, has been ...

Growing market speculation over a potential Bank of Japan rate hike in October is underestimating the degree of uncertainty wrought by Donald Trump’s tariff campaign, according to a former BOJ chief ...

In his newsletter on Thursday, Krugman described events of the past week regarding Trump’s attempted firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook over “unsubstantiated claims” as being both “shocking and ...

Fred Harrison warns that converging crises could spark unprecedented global collapse. Managerial elites are paralyzed; Harrison calls for informed citizen action instead of fruitless revolutions. Up ...

President Donald Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. But the Georgia-born economist said she’s not going anywhere, setting up a legal showdown that could reshape the president’s powers ...

Chief economist at Numerator Leo Feler breaks down fresh jobs data, which showed a continued hiring slowdown in the first such release since last month's dismal jobs report. ‘Enough is Enough’: New ...

The U.S. economy may be closer to recession than the Trump administration acknowledges, with housing and construction poised to feel the pinch first, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at ...