A feared recession didn’t materialize, but unemployment rose, wage growth slowed and affordability challenges are mounting.

What is a recession? What are the key indicators of a recession? How do government and central banks respond to recessions? What are the causes of recessions? How can individuals and businesses ...

Over the past few weeks, Americans have been in limbo as a series of 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico have been imposed, paused, reimposed and paused again, which has led to retaliatory ...

Nonfarm employment is currently 0.00% off its all-time high (data through April 2025). Industrial production is currently 0.26% off its all-time high from February 2025 (data through April 2025). Real ...

July 20 - The recession touched off by the coronavirus lasted only two months, ending with a "trough" reached in April 2020 just one month after the sharp drop in economic activity in March of that ...

U.S. consumers have taken a decidedly negative economic outlook, as a majority think the nation already is in recession and worry about high prices on essential goods and services, according to the ...

While Fed monetary policy has so far managed to tame post-pandemic inflation without precipitating a recession, there is growing concern among some economists that planned tariffs and mass ...

Here's why economic slowdown could bring relief for homebuyers Sakshi Udavant covers small business finance, entrepreneurship, and startup topics for Investopedia. For over a decade, she has been a ...

Just 20 days ago, the US stock market was sitting at all-time highs. The US economy appeared to be growing at a solid pace. And a recession was nowhere in sight. Now, the R-word is seemingly ...

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