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  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Jerome Powell doesn’t want to ‘jinx’ his war on inflation: ‘I’m a superstitious person’

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Economists say you’re wrong for wanting prices to start falling—and they point to the Great Depression of the 1930s

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge slowed in February

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • A Lululemon store in New York, US, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Lululemon Athletica Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on March 21. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    The U.S. economy just won’t quit — fourth-quarter GDP was revised even higher than initial estimate

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • Construction workerFinance

    Economy delivers another strong month with 275,000 jobs created in February

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden smilesFinance

    February jobs report expected to show healthy hiring increase—but down from the blockbuster gains in January

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    U.S. economy grew 3.2% in fourth quarter, slight downgrade from initial estimate

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • As Reata Engineering and Machine Works CEO Grady Cope looks on, a worker prepares a Hexagon machine to confirm that parts meet customers’ standards, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Englewood, Colo. At Reata, which makes parts for aircraft and medical device manufacturers, “efficiency was kind of forced on us,” Cope said. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Finance

    Robots and AI are saving the American economy with a boom in productivity, the ‘magic beanstalk beans’ that allow higher wages without inflation

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – People walk past the New York Stock Exchange, Dec. 11, 2023, in New York. Just a quarter of business economists and analysts expect the United States to fall into recession in 2024. And any downturn would likely result from an external shock, such as a conflict involving China, rather than from domestic economic factors such as higher interest rates. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)Finance

    Only 25% of business economists say the U.S. will have a recession this year, but they worry about China-Taiwan conflict and the 2024 elections

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A woman works in a shoe maquiladora or factory in Leon, Mexico, Feb. 7, 2023. For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year overtook China as America’s top supplier of goods — a shift that reflects political tensions between Washington and Beijing and U.S. efforts to import from countries that are friendlier and closer to home. (AP Photo/Mario Armas, File)Finance

    Chilly relations with Beijing mean Mexico now exports more than China to the U.S. for the first time in over 20 years

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • Delivery workerFinance

    Economy beats expectations again, adding 353,000 jobs in January

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • NEW YORK CITY – JANUARY 05: A ‘now hiring’ sign is displayed in a retail store in Manhattan on January 05, 2024 in New York City. As the American economy continues to outperform expectations, the December jobs report showed that employers added 216,000 positions for the month as the unemployment rate held at 3.7% (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Finance

    Layoffs rose in December as quits fell to 3-year low in a sign the job market is cooling

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • Pierre-Olivier GourinchasFinance

    IMF chief economist says world economy is ‘now in the final descent toward a soft landing’

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    America shocks economists again with 3.3% fourth-quarter GDP growth as ‘soft landing’ looms ever nearer

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
  • EconomyFinance

    Momentum for rare economic ‘soft landing’ building with expected 2% GDP reading

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press