People feel like their dollars aren’t stretching as far as before, and the cost of living is rising beyond their means. There’s just one problem: That part is not true. Most Americans are getting raises that outpace overall inflation.

The UCLA Anderson Forecast released Wednesday predicts the state and nation will muddle through a weak jobs market until the economy picks up next year.

From jobs to housing to grocery prices, the U.S. economy has been weakening for months. But the stock market is telling a different story.

Analysts and economists have increasingly described the U.S. economy as being in a K-shaped expansion. Delinquency rates on car loans have risen over the course of the last several months and are now at the highest they’ve been this cycle.

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.

Now that the Federal Reserve has signaled lower interest rates are likely to come in the next month or so, attention will turn back to the underlying health of the economy. That will be clearer this week with an updated estimate of second-quarter gross ...

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Consumers report feeling increasingly glum about the economy. Still, data suggests there has been no significant slowdown in their spending habits. The conflicting trends have made for an increasingly difficult landscape for the Federal Reserve to navigate ...

A Federal Reserve official on Wednesday called last week's tepid jobs report "concerning," and said its significant downward revisions could signal an economic shift in the U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook highlighted the report's sizable downward ...

Pessimism around the national economy is at a record high in the U.S., and a majority of survey respondents believe the American dream is no longer true, according to a new poll. The poll, released Monday by The Wall Street Journal/NORC Research Center ...

The large services side of the economy grew in November for the sixth month in a row and inflationary pressures eased, but businesses were taking a cautious approach to hiring and investing due to lingering “tariff uncertainty.