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consumer confidence
Economy
Government shutdown sends consumer confidence plunging to April ‘liberation day’ levels
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressNovember 25, 2025
retail sales
Economy
Retail sales creep up 0.2% in September from August as delayed report shows economy crawling forward
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressNovember 25, 2025
Scott Bessent
Economy
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 The Associated PressNovember 20, 2025
Bowman
Banking
Fed wins banking industry praise for new guidelines on supervision of financial system
By Christopher Rugaber, Ken Sweet and The Associated PressNovember 19, 2025
Jerome Powell
Economy
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 PressNovember 18, 2025
Lisa Cook
Law
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 The Associated PressNovember 17, 2025
Jobs
Economy
Jobs disaster—or mediocrity—to be revealed with September jobs report finally set to drop Thursday
By Paul Wiseman, Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressNovember 15, 2025
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 PressNovember 11, 2025
economy
Economy
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 PressNovember 7, 2025
Jerome Powell
Economy
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 The Associated PressOctober 24, 2025
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Economy
‘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 PressOctober 14, 2025
Nobel
Economy
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, Mike Corder, David McHugh and The Associated PressOctober 13, 2025
shopper
Economy
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 PressOctober 12, 2025
Capitol
Economy
Economy flies blind without jobs data, unemployment claims during government shutdown
By Christopher Rugaber, Paul Wiseman and The Associated PressOctober 3, 2025
Stephen Miran
Economy
Trump’s new Fed appointee says fewer immigrants should free up more housing and lower rental costs
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressSeptember 22, 2025
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