DAVID KOENIG / The Associated PressSep 17, 2019
Gasoline prices crept higher after a drone attack devastated Saudi Arabian oil output, but global market disruption may be short-lived. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
MARTIN CRUTSINGER / The Associated PressDec 21, 2017
With final figures in for July-September, the nation records the first consecutive quarters that growth has topped 3 percent since 2014. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Martin Crutsinger / APOct 27, 2017
The growth is evidence of economic durability and all but assures that the Federal Reserve will resume raising interest rates late this year. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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A new IRS filing reveals that a shadowy Koch brothers-led nonprofit, Freedom Partners, spent nearly a quarter-billion dollars trying to influence 2012 elections and policy discussions. Most of the donors remain secret. Can you say, "oligarchy"? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigApr 29, 2013
What is Washington doing to fix the economy? Worse than nothing. It has now adopted the same kind of austerity economics that’s doomed Europe -- cutting federal spending and reducing total demand. And the sequester doesn’t end Sept. 30. It takes an even bigger bite out of the federal budget next fiscal year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 6, 2013
"Today the stock market is high not from profits from expanding sales revenues, but from labor cost savings," former Reagan Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts writes in CounterPunch. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 15, 2011
Consumer borrowing shot up $15.5 billion in June -- three times more than projected -- in the biggest increase in credit in four years, with credit card and other types of revolving debt rising by $5.21 billion -- the largest jump since spring of 2008. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 29, 2011
Even though it fell short of economists’ expectations, a 3.2 percent rise in the GDP during the last quarter of 2010 has rekindled hopes that the U.S. economy may be moving toward sustainable recovery. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 30, 2010
After climbing 3.7 percent in the first three months of the year, the U.S. economy grew just 2.4 percent in the second quarter, an underwhelming performance that reinforced the reality that the recovery is struggling to find some footing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 12, 2010
The news from Wall Street wasn't great as the week wrapped up and trading shut down Friday, although it wasn't bad across the board The stock market took a tumble, registering ongoing worries about (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 15, 2009
Which industries actually thrive in the midst of a crippling recession? There are many ways to approach that question, but over the past year, Americans looking for low-impact escapism on a budget went to the movies, and they did so in numbers that might put some of the hand-wringing about the impact of the Internet and the economy on the film business on hold, at least for the time being. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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