One year down, three more to go. Donald Trump became president for the second time on this day in 2025. With that came a lot of new economic plans for trade, immigration, and the federal workforce.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy in 2025 was filled with contradictions, as growth was healthy while hiring slowed, inflation stayed elevated and unemployment rose. Last year's odd outcomes raise a host ...

Chart #2 is constructed to illustrate how inflation has tended to lag changes in money supply growth by about one year. The initial surge in money growth was not immediately inflationary because huge ...

Real GDP rose at just a 0.7% annual rate, falling well short of the 1.4% forecast and marking a steep drop-off from the 4.4% ...

Romania’s statistics office, INS, has confirmed an economic slowdown in 2025 (chart), slightly revising the annual growth rate to 0.7% from the 0.6% flash estimate, according to preliminary data ...

The U.S. stock market has stumbled in 2026. The benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has fallen more than 3% even though most companies reported better-than-expected earnings in the fourth quarter.

China set its 2026 growth target to 4.5%-5%, the least ambitious since 1991, signaling greater tolerance for slower expansion ...

Last year's odd outcomes raise a host of questions for the upcoming year: Will a growing economy eventually boost the sluggish job market? Or are last year's weak job gains a sign of a stumbling ...