Voters sour on Trump’s handling of economy in new poll
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday credited himself with overcoming the economic "disaster" left by his predecessor and gave his economy an “A+++++” rating, but the experiences of most Americans paint a far gloomier picture of financial conditions in 2025.
Donald Trump has hit dozens of US trading partners with new tariffs while formalising recent trade deals with others, including the UK and EU. Analysts at Yale Budget Lab estimate that, overall, the US effective tariff rate is now at its highest level since the 1930s.
The story of manufacturing in this country is often told through steel, energy or technology. However, one industry that rarely features in that story underpins all of them.
While spending soared to almost $12 billion, per one estimate, the data shows a more complicated economic picture.
The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, upgrading its outlook for global and U.
U.S. economic activity was little changed in recent weeks, though employment was weaker in about half of the Federal Reserve's 12 districts and consumer spending declined, the U.S. central bank said on Wednesday,
Over the next decade, the US economy will face two big challenges: higher interest rates and AI-generated disruption. Each invites the same solution: policies to keep rates below their market level. The strategy, also known as yield-curve control, is ...
A new study has found that substance use disorders (SUD) cost the U.S. economy just under $93 billion in 2023 from a combination of missed work, reduced work productivity and lost household productivity.
President Donald Trump is perfectly happy with the state of the U.S. economy under his watch, even as everyday Americans grow increasingly frustrated with the high cost of living. Asked about how he would grade his performance on the economy in an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns on Monday,