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Ben Bernanke: I Was Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Save the States. Congress must act decisively to avoid repeating mistakes of the recovery from the Great Recession. July 15, 2020 States need subst

World A brutal second-quarter contraction in Singapore and a feeble recovery in the U.K. give an early look at the tough climb facing the world economy By Jason Douglas in London and Feliz Solomon in

Despite record-setting COVID-19 infections, American equities rose today. All major indices gained ground during regular trading, while tech stocks did even better. The Nasdaq Composite set new 52-wee

NEWS 10 July 2020 Economists welcome the chance to see whether giving people cash to spend however they choose improves livelihoods. Carrie Arnold View author publications You can also search for this

Essay Don’t the Markets Know We’re Living in a Disaster Movie? With so much bad news out there, the big rally in the stock market is what’s really scary. Credit... Glynis Sweeny By July 10, 2020 Guys,

By Annie Gasparro and Jaewon Kang | Photographs by Katie Currid for The Wall Street Journal July 12, 2020 5:30 am ET Grocers are having trouble staying stocked with goods from flour to soups as climbi

Essay To understand corporate chameleons like China’s Huawei, look to the era when the East India Company and other firms blurred the boundary between government and business. By Andrew Phillips and J

Credit... Paul Hoppe Can These Markets Be Trusted? After a calamitous drop in March, the stock market has had a ferocious rally, despite a cascade of awful news. How can investors cope? Credit... Paul

America’s health crisis began just as Joaquín H. was recovering from his own. He got sick, suddenly, at the end of January. He spent most of February in and out of the hospital, major surgery along th

Real Estate July 07, 2020, 8:01 am EDT Despite relatively steady home price appreciation in May, the U.S. housing market is on the precipice of an extended price slump, according to a CoreLogic report

The percentage of Americans who are employed sits at just over 50%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment-population ratio . The figure plunged to 51.3% in April (the lowest level on

A national mask mandate could help the US avoid another round of COVID-19-related lockdowns, as well as the steep economic losses they would generate, according to research by Goldman Sachs. The inves

These days, reading the monthly jobs report can feel like opening a time capsule. According to the data for June, which was released today , the recovery from the COVID-19 recession was still chugging

Federal Reserve officials expressed fears in a meeting last month that a second wave of the novel coronavirus could send a reeling U.S. economy deeper into an unprecedented recession, according to min

Denise Iezzi, an accounting assistant, has had every Friday off since the pandemic escalated in March. This isn’t by choice. Her employer cut her hours and pay. It’s an involuntary sacrifice that more

E.U. Barring U.S. Visitors a ‘Huge Deal’ for Airlines International travel, a big profit generator for airlines, has been slow to recover and will probably take a big blow from the loss of trans-Atlan

Cash-starved cities and states across the country are starting to weigh whether to raise taxes on homes, cigarettes, local businesses and global tech giants, hoping to rake in new revenue that might h

Economy In the post-pandemic world, more economic activity will be designated vital to national security, accelerating pressures on globalization By Jacob M. Schlesinger June 19, 2020 2:56 pm ET When

A fter months of living with the coronavirus pandemic, American citizens are well aware of the toll it has taken on the economy: broken supply chains, record unemployment, failing small businesses. Al

A Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Is Coming Experts foresee so many filings in the coming months that the courts could struggle to salvage the businesses that are worth saving. Credit... Monica Garwood By

A worker paints over a Louis Vuitton storefront, boarded up after the coronavirus outbreak, on March 30 in San Francisco. Ben Margot/AP The wealthiest American households are keeping a tight grip on t

Streetwise The post-financial-crisis playbook may not be the right one this time March 29, 2020 11:00 am ET Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, which earlier this month cut rates to nearly

Economy U.S. Economy Start of downturn marks the end of 128-month expansion that began in June 2009 By Kate Davidson Updated June 8, 2020 10:33 pm ET The NBER said the coronavirus pandemic and the pub

Business Food makers, retailers respond by restoring promotions, bundling products to help offset biggest price jump since 1970s June 9, 2020 7:00 am ET Food makers are designing value packs, and supe

BuzzFeed News More than 40 million people lost their jobs in the last few months, in the fastest and deepest economic slowdown ever recorded. More than half of all households with low incomes in the U

If you or someone you know is facing eviction, CNBC Make It would like to hear from you. Please email money reporter Alicia Adamczyk at alicia.adamczyk@nbcuni.com. Even before the coronavirus pandemic

Federal Reserve leaders predict a slow recovery for the U.S. economy, with unemployment falling to 9.3 percent by the end of this year and to 6.5 percent by the end of 2021, after tens of millions of

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Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand. A rip in the fabric of the economy won’t be healed easily, and denial of the severity of the crisis won’t solve it. Credi

When the U.S. government’s official jobs report for May came out on Friday, it included a note at the bottom saying there had been a major “error” indicating that the unemployment rate likely should b

Spencer Platt | Getty Images The unemployment rate in the U.S. improved last month as millions of people returned to the workforce. But the official 13.3% unemployment rate, while still high relative

New York (CNN Business) Who would want to lose their job in the middle of the worst job market since the Great Depression? Believe or not, thousands of people would. More than 10,000 people have alrea

In an age punctuated with almost biblical chaos—plague, brutality, and surreal images of the president posing with a holy book he fumbles like a strange cut of meat—there has been one queasy and bizar

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Economic Strain Persists Even as Businesses Reopen State jobless rolls increased last week as some workers were newly laid off and others belatedly started to receive benefits. Eric Latham in Alabama

Jonathan Baird and his wife, Nichole, say they've had to decide between making their car payment and buying food since she lost her job in the pandemic. His mortgage and auto lenders told him he didn'

Economy U.S. Economy No matter the measure, Covid-19 and shutdowns led to historically high unemployment and are likely to leave lasting mark on U.S. economy June 3, 2020 5:30 am ET It will likely tak

Economy Economic Data Surveys of purchasing managers in U.S., Asia and Europe offer some hope that decline in factory activity is starting to bottom out Updated June 1, 2020 6:48 pm ET The U.S. econom