With a reliable bond market signal pointing to a possible recession down the road, policymakers have a choice: act now to head off the downturn or hope that conditions will change for the better. As ...

(CNN) — The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in charge of producing it. But economists haven’t forgotten about ...

A favorite adage of economists, market watchers, and financial journalists alike is that the American consumer is the engine of the US economy. If spending is not slowing, the thinking goes, the ...