Experts fling themselves from one direction to another, but consumers have a steadier sense of what is happening overall.

Gross Domestic Product data for the second quarter came out on Thursday. Economists expected a moderate slowdown in growth, given inflation and interest rates. Instead, the reading shows a robust ...

Economic growth came in pretty strong for the fourth quarter of 2024. As we learned on Thursday, GDP rose at an annual rate of 2.3%. And consumer spending is a key contributor. It rose 4.2% for the ...

Neither business leaders nor consumers needed to hear Wednesday’s dismal news that the U.S. economy shrank 0.3 percent during the first quarter of 2025 to voice their concerns about the way things are ...

The shocking strength of the economy helps explain the Federal Reserve’s Scrooge-like plans for interest-rate cuts next year. And the latest update on GDP over the summer offers another reminder. The ...

The US economy grew at a sluggish 1.3% annual pace from January through March, the weakest quarterly rate since the spring of 2022, the government said Thursday in a downgrade from its previous ...

Consumers splurged on goods in particular, but also on services, and they accounted for 69% of GDP and moved the GDP needle. The trade deficit worsened further, driven by rampant consumer spending and ...

The broader U.S. economy still appears to be in pretty good shape thanks to American consumers The Federal Reserve cut interest rates last week because of fresh worries about the jobs market, but the ...

So how well is the economy actually doing right now? "This is one of those cases where despite the the top line number ...

Tremendous opportunities are here for Western companies” looking into service areas, says prominent business scholar John ...

When the spread between the two is as wide as it is now, it means that consumers are more confident about the economy as a whole than they are about how they personally will fare in coming months. An ...