WASHINGTON — Expanded unemployment benefits that have kept millions of Americans afloat during the pandemic expired on Monday, setting up an abrupt cutoff of assistance to 7.5 million people as […]
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Back to news homeAugust Jobs Report is Concerning News for Fed
Disappointing August jobs numbers intensified the economic uncertainty caused by the Delta variant, putting pressure on the Federal Reserve as it considers when to reduce its policy support and on […]
The Economy Is Booming but Far From Normal, Posing a Challenge for Biden
The American economy is growing at its fastest clip in a quarter-century, yet it remains far from normal, with some workers and small-business owners facing increasingly tough times while others […]
How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Testing the Federal Reserve’s New Policy Plan
When Jerome H. Powell speaks at the Federal Reserve’s biggest annual conference on Friday, he will do so at a tense economic moment, as prices rise rapidly while millions of […]
Banks Are Bingeing on Bonds, but Not Because They Want To
The economy is growing. Businesses are hiring. Stocks are soaring. And banks are sitting on big piles of cash.If only they had a better place to put it.Lingering supply chain […]
One Number to Gauge Where the Economy Is Headed
“You just have a lot of sand in the gears that’s slowing or reducing the recovery momentum,” he added, pointing to vaccine requirements at restaurants and other measures. “We believe […]
Big Economic Challenges Await Biden and the Fed This Fall
Mr. Powell said at his news conference last week that “we’re some way away from having had substantial further progress toward the maximum employment goal.”“I would want to see some […]
Home Prices Are Soaring. Is That the Fed’s Problem?
Robert S. Kaplan, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has been nervously eyeing the housing market as he ponders the path ahead for monetary policy. Home prices […]
U.S. Economy Grew 1.6% in Second Quarter
Now a new threat is emerging in the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, which has caused cases to soar in much of the country. The Centers for Disease […]
U.S. Deficit Expected to Hit $3 Trillion in 2021, Budget Office Says
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy is rebounding from the pandemic downturn faster than expected and is on track to regain all the jobs lost during the coronavirus by the middle […]