Economy

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve on September 17, 2025.

The Fed doesn’t actually have a ‘dual’ mandate—there’s a third part it rarely mentions, and economists want it to stay that way

Some experts told Fortune that they had forgotten entirely about the long-term interest rate rule.

By Eleanor Pringle

September 21, 2025

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Ethereum surges past $4,000 as crypto market soars to all-time high over $4 trillion

Don Vultaggio, cofounder of the AriZona Beverage Company, stands in front of a booth advertising his famous drinks

The 99-cent AriZona iced tea could be the next victim of Trump’s tariffs

By Eva Roytburg

‘We negotiated a little deal’: Trump says Nvidia and AMD will kick back 15% of China chip sales in potentially unconstitutional arrangement

By The Associated Press

Trump’s AI czar plants flag in ‘doomer’ debate. Here’s why he thinks humans are still in control of the Pandora’s Box they’ve opened

By Nick Lichtenberg

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AI will not be a mass destroyer of jobs, says U.K. central bank chief: ‘I’m an economic historian. Economies adapt’

AI will not be a mass destroyer of jobs, says U.K. central bank chief: ‘I’m an economic historian. Economies adapt’

February 2, 2024

Once-unstoppable consumers are finally tapping the brakes—and Adidas, Nike, and Puma are taking a beating from sinking sales

Once-unstoppable consumers are finally tapping the brakes—and Adidas, Nike, and Puma are taking a beating from sinking sales

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

February 1, 2024

Top strategist says a ‘surprise’ rate cut could be coming next month—and it’s because Trump is leading in the polls

Top strategist says a ‘surprise’ rate cut could be coming next month—and it’s because Trump is leading in the polls

February 1, 2024

The markets are starting to realize just how hawkish the Fed is–and reckoning with higher-for-longer interest rates

The markets are starting to realize just how hawkish the Fed is–and reckoning with higher-for-longer interest rates

January 31, 2024

The Great Resignation is officially done—and so are all those big raises, stark new data shows

The Great Resignation is officially done—and so are all those big raises, stark new data shows

By Irina Ivanova

January 31, 2024

‘The office market has an existential crisis right now’: Billionaire Barry Sternlicht joins chorus warning of $1 trillion correction, but insists ‘nobody knows exactly where it all is’

‘The office market has an existential crisis right now’: Billionaire Barry Sternlicht joins chorus warning of $1 trillion correction, but insists ‘nobody knows exactly where it all is’

By Alena Botros

January 31, 2024

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren is furious about the ‘full-blown housing crisis’ and she’s targeting Jerome Powell’s ‘troubling rate hikes’

By Alena Botros

January 30, 2024

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

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

January 30, 2024

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

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

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

January 30, 2024

Christine Lagarde

Europe reports economic growth rate of zero for the last 3 months of 2023

By David McHugh and The Associated Press

January 30, 2024

Henry Kissinger didn’t take much interest in the global economy at first–until he did and changed it forever

Henry Kissinger didn’t take much interest in the global economy at first–until he did and changed it forever

By Robert Hormats

January 30, 2024

Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon says lower-income people need more help and he’d ‘pay for it by taxing the wealthy a little bit more’

By Sunny Nagpaul

January 26, 2024

New York Stock Exchange

Stock market near record highs as S&P 500 sets record 5 days in a row

By Stan Choe and The Associated Press

January 26, 2024

Father with arm around looking at son while standing at home.

Gen Z is richer than just a few years ago—and much richer than their parents at the same age—but everything costs more and they have more debt, Pew study reveals

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

January 26, 2024

Jerome Powell

The Fed’s preferred inflation metric cooled again in December as soft landing beckons

By Christopher Rugaber, Will Daniel and The Associated Press

January 26, 2024

Harvard economist Jason Furman says the soft landing is here—and the risk we ‘veer off the runway’ into recession is not ‘unusually high’

Harvard economist Jason Furman says the soft landing is here—and the risk we ‘veer off the runway’ into recession is not ‘unusually high’

January 25, 2024

The anti-corporate tirade ‘Johnny Keep Walking’ topping China’s box office is the tonic we all need–but not because it hates business

The anti-corporate tirade ‘Johnny Keep Walking’ topping China’s box office is the tonic we all need–but not because it hates business

By Mohamed El Aassar

January 25, 2024

Jerome Powell

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

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

January 25, 2024

Sputtering European economy seen pushing ECB head Christine Lagarde to resist rate cuts—for now

Sputtering European economy seen pushing ECB head Christine Lagarde to resist rate cuts—for now

By David McHugh and The Associated Press

January 25, 2024

Economy

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

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

January 25, 2024

A crippled housing market has left Americans stranded in 40-year-old properties and unable to afford most home improvements. Now they are turning to ‘home hardening’ instead

A crippled housing market has left Americans stranded in 40-year-old properties and unable to afford most home improvements. Now they are turning to ‘home hardening’ instead

January 25, 2024

Giorgio Rapicavoli

A lot of Americans sitting around who never had cash before: New Yelp data reveals the small-business boom from the pandemic has real-world legs

By Irina Ivanova and Sunny Nagpaul

January 24, 2024

Small businesses are turning to private credit–but overregulation threatens to cut off that lifeline

Small businesses are turning to private credit–but overregulation threatens to cut off that lifeline

By Drew Maloney

January 24, 2024

Bill Gross

‘Bond King’ Bill Gross doubles down after calling the end of the 35-year bond bull market months ago: ‘I like dabbling in the equity market more’

January 23, 2024

Union membership just hit a record low as 2023’s ‘hot labor summer’ can’t reverse a generational decline

Union membership just hit a record low as 2023’s ‘hot labor summer’ can’t reverse a generational decline

By Irina Ivanova, Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

January 23, 2024

Millennial men in the U.K. are helping drive a trend of falling working hours, and it might be starting to hurt the country’s economy

Millennial men in the U.K. are helping drive a trend of falling working hours, and it might be starting to hurt the country’s economy

January 23, 2024

Billionaire CEO sees $1 trillion in commercial real estate defaults coming for ‘very, very ugly market’ over next 2 years

Billionaire CEO sees $1 trillion in commercial real estate defaults coming for ‘very, very ugly market’ over next 2 years

January 22, 2024

Top markets analyst sees 3 scenarios for stocks in the 2020s, and only one of them is a bad outcome

Top markets analyst sees 3 scenarios for stocks in the 2020s, and only one of them is a bad outcome

January 22, 2024

NYSE broker

Wall Street celebrates record highs for stocks as 2 of the 3 major indexes hit new peaks, and some analysts see room to run

January 19, 2024

Jerome Powell

The vibecession is in recession as cooling inflation and rising wages have Americans feeling better about the economy in the new year

January 19, 2024

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