The Heritage Foundation's 2026 Index of Economic Freedom finds nations embracing free markets, like Singapore and Ireland, ...

The overall economy has proved resilient in recent years, even as many households have struggled. The war with Iran is ...

The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a second estimate released on Friday by ...

I don’t expect it to change because of the latest disappointing numbers on jobs, fluctuations in the gross domestic product ...

Hiring at US businesses unexpectedly plunged last month as employers shed an estimated 92,000 jobs, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The US economy was on shaky footing even before President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, a battery of new data released Friday showed.

The US economy, hobbled by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, advanced at an unexpectedly sluggish 0.7% annual rate from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Friday in a big ...

For the greater part of the last decade, the United States and China have been locked in a cold war, fought as fiercely over economic and technology advantages as over military advantages. In ...

As much as President Donald Trump wants to insist otherwise, the struggling economy is a vulnerability for him and Republicans leading into the 2026 midterm elections. A new high 67% of Americans ...

Hello. I'm Louie. I run the USA TODAY Opinion team, and I need your help. You see, we're trying to figure out what to write about the economy. Our columnists have written a few things, and we've had ...

Recession worries are spreading, but analysts don’t expect a dire economic slowdown in 2025 and are looking for growth to reaccelerate next year. Heightened risk factors like a rapidly cooling labor ...

A Bank of America Institute analysis of 2,000 years of GDP data reframes American exceptionalism — and points toward what comes next.