The AI sector absorbs resources that could fuel growth elsewhere. Economics explains why business activity would not collapse ...

The third possibility is the most intriguing: Both data sets are broadly correct. G.D.P. really is booming — but it is being ...

Of video game-related sales last year, the games themselves accounted for 86.5% of spending. So the impact of changes in ...

It's the first full week of 2026, and markets will be tuned in for Friday's timely release of the December jobs report.

The problem, then, is when that pressure eases in early 2026 as tax refunds surge and withholding changes put more cash ...

U.S. economic growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of 2025 as businesses rushed to stockpile goods ahead of President Trump's sweeping tariff policies. The nation's gross domestic product — the ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently posted data about U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) on multiple blockchains. The move is an effort to win over President Trump's confidence in the figures ...

To say that a lot is happening in and to the U.S. economy feels like an understatement. And just as people are having a hard time keeping up with the happenings, the actual economic data is too. So ...

The economic calendar Thursday features a first revision of second-quarter gross domestic product data at 8:30 a.m. ET, which economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal expect to tick up to a 3.1% ...

The U.S. economy surged between April and June after shrinking in the first three months of the year, driven by a large shift in imports tied to President Trump's trade policies. The country's GDP ...

Every month, the federal government serves up a steady diet of economic reports on everything from the price of groceries to the unemployment rate. These reports are closely followed: They can move ...