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.

When the Commerce Department released a report on April 30 showing that the economy had shrunk during the first quarter of 2025 – the first such decline since 2022 – President Donald Trump was ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on May 7 said "the economy is doing fine" during a news conference after the Federal Open Market Committee announced it would keep its key rate steady at 4.25% ...

President Donald Trump’s meme coin is already a thing that shouldn’t exist, much less as a vehicle for foreign entities to funnel money to the sitting president ...

Wall Street on Tuesday extended losses to a second straight day, as market participants continued to take a bit of a breather. Read more here.

Harvard is educating us all—on what’s ailing Wall Street and the U.S. economy. Facing the freeze of $2.2 billion in federal grants, Harvard is selling $750 million in bonds, for a total of $1. ...

President Trump took credit for the positive parts of the economy and blamed his predecessor for the lagging parts as voters increasingly express concerns about the economy. Trump told NBC News ...

“I want a strong economy regardless of who is in the White House. But this president seems more interested in the valuation of his meme coin than in people’s retirement accounts, their ...

When the stock market fell Wednesday on news that the American economy had gone backward during the first three months of 2025, Trump knew exactly who to blame: Biden. “This is Biden’s Stock ...

Free Expression: After a meeting at the Vatican, Donald Trump toughens his rhetoric toward Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The first-quarter decline in the U.S. economy reported Wednesday may not ...

President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff plan was largely expected to impact the US economy’s first-quarter performance as companies loaded up on imported goods ahead of higher levies.

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% ...