The U.S. economy expanded at a 3% annual pace in the second quarter, masking signs of weakness as businesses and consumers grappled with how to respond to ongoing trade wars. Gross domestic product, ...

Mark Zandi believes conditions for average Americans will worsen despite the economy growing at a faster rate this year.

The growth rate, driven mostly by an uptick in consumer spending, surprised most economists. Wealthy Americans currently account for an outsize portion of new spending.

Trump’s most dramatic economic policy shift has been toward trade protectionism. The president increased tariffs in 2025 to ...

Household spending is increasingly divided between wealthy consumers who are helping to keep the economy humming, and ...

Goldman Sachs economists predict U.S. economic growth will accelerate to 2.6% in 2026, driven by tax cuts, reduced tariff ...

Economic growth for the second quarter was revised up three-tenths of a percentage point to a 3.3% annual rate, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Wednesday in its first revision of the data. The ...

The US economy grew at an unexpectedly strong pace of 4.3% in the third quarter -- the highest rate in two years -- according to a government report released Tuesday.

Economists may have a pretty dismal record with predictions. But we're still interested in what they see in their ...