Christopher Rugaber

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  • joblessEconomy

    ‘Low-hire, low-fire’ economy grinds on as lower-than-expected jobless claims suggests layoffs aren’t spiking

    By Christopher Rugaber, Nick Lichtenberg, and others
  • consumer confidenceEconomy

    Government shutdown sends consumer confidence plunging to April ‘liberation day’ levels

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • retail salesEconomy

    Retail sales creep up 0.2% in September from August as delayed report shows economy crawling forward

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Scott BessentEconomy

    Trump urges Scott Bessent to take Fed chair role, ‘but he wants no part of it, he likes being secretary of the Treasury’

    By Christopher Rugaber, Josh Boak, and others
  • BowmanBanking

    Fed wins banking industry praise for new guidelines on supervision of financial system

    By Christopher Rugaber, Ken Sweet, and others
  • Jerome PowellEconomy

    Fed speeches reveal split that puts rate cut in jeopardy: persistent inflation vs ‘low-hire, low-fire’ labor market

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Lisa CookLaw

    Fed governor accused of mortgage fraud blasts case as ‘baseless,’ based on ‘one stray reference’ about a primary residence

    By Christopher Rugaber, Brian Slodysko, and others
  • JobsEconomy

    Jobs disaster—or mediocrity—to be revealed with September jobs report finally set to drop Thursday

    By Paul Wiseman, Christopher Rugaber, and others
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speaks to members of the media at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025.Economy

    How the federal government hurt the economy: $11 billion vanishes with 1.25 million unpaid and 2,000 canceled flights

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • economyEconomy

    Meet a 32-year-old who quit her job a year ago and is still looking after 700 applications and counting in the ‘low-hire, low-fire’ job market

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellEconomy

    Inflation is still ‘the dog that didn’t bark’ as delayed CPI report shows cooler-than-expected rise to 3%

    By Christopher Rugaber, Nick Lichtenberg, and others
  • Pierre-Olivier GourinchasEconomy

    ‘It was the internet then, it is AI now’: IMF upgrades U.S. growth outlook but sees ‘echoes’ of late ’90s dot-com boom

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • NobelEconomy

    Economist awarded Nobel prize before his morning coffee or walking his dog: ‘I had no clue that anything like this was going to happen’

    By Kostya Manenkov, Christopher Rugaber, and others
  • shopperEconomy

    Trump keeps saying he’s ‘defeated’ inflation but coffee is 21% more expensive and groceries just had their largest non-pandemic jump in a decade

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • CapitolEconomy

    Economy flies blind without jobs data, unemployment claims during government shutdown

    By Christopher Rugaber, Paul Wiseman, and others