Financial news is always awash in numbers, but there’s one figure that’s almost always more important than anything else: the ...

Now consider bitcoin: much like these scarce precious metals, bitcoin is now widely regarded as “digital gold,” including by ...

The consumer price index rose 3% on the year in January 2025. Economists worry that broad disinflation is over, even as ...

The consumer price index increased 3% in January from a year ago, Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department showed, up ...

Because the economy is doing well, the Fed can take its time to decide when and whether to lower interest rates.

Jerome Powell was quickly thrust into the partisan turmoil surrounding Trump's executive orders and the efforts of Elon Musk.

U.S. stocks end little changed on Tuesday after Fed Chair Powell rehashes last month's comments. Focus turns to inflation, earnings and tariffs.

The odds of further interest rate cuts this year by the Federal Reserve dwindled last week as unemployment fell and more ...

With or without a Fed acting as a full employment act for economists, economic growth and money will take care of themselves ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...