The numbers: Worker productivity, one of the biggest drivers of a strong U.S. economy since the pandemic, stumbled in the first quarter of 2025, for the first time since the second quarter of 2022.

It's the worst quarterly performance for the U.S. economy since early 2022, when the economy was in recovery after cratering during the COVID pandemic. The U.S. economy was forecast to show 0.8% ...

Since 1929, there have been 14 recessionary periods in the U.S. Most recently, the U.S. economy entered a brief, two-month long recession from February to April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the U.S. economy shrinks, fears and predictions of a recession continue to grow. New Commerce Department data shows that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at an annual rate ...

As President Donald Trump’s oft-changing tariff policies work their way through the economy, fears of a downturn pervade Main Street and Wall Street, with odds of the U.S. facing a recession ...

Now, keep in mind that from the lead-up to the November election until early this year, the U.S. dollar was on a roll. That was based on markets thinking the U.S. economy was stronger than most ...

The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of the year. Economists warn the months to come could also be challenging if President Trump's tariffs remain in place. Economic output shrank ...

On March 18th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the procedure under which it would allocate the $10 billion in economic aid to farmers that was enacted into law in December 2024 as ...

The major effects on the U.S. economy of shutting down trade with China will start to become apparent in the summer of 2025, when the United States might slip into a recession, said Torsten Slok ...

U.S. gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, would be 3.8 percent smaller in the long term — a decline similar in magnitude to that in the Great Recession, which ended in 2009.