The Commerce Department reported gains in both personal income and in spending in May of 2019. The gain in personal income was primarily from personal interest income, wages and salaries, and government social benefits.
Could hackers take control of much of your town's government and essentially hold it for ransom as the only means to get its systems back online? It's a question that is being asked more…
If there is one industrial component that can help sway the impact of gross domestic product, look no further than the monthly report on durable goods.
There is a battle in the federal courts over control of the national census, who will be included in the count and even when census ballots are printed.
Jerome Powell is being less dovish than the market and President Trump want him to be. FOMC votes to not cut fed funds rate and is slower than the consensus forecast of rate cuts…
The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence level hit a 21-month low in June.
The strong economy has finally started to show some weakness around slower global growth and trade tensions. After a very weak Empire Manufacturing report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal…
May's reading on retail sales did manage to post a 0.5% seasonally adjusted gain. That's the good news.
It is not at all unusual for economists and market watchers to worry about trade tensions escalating. Where things break apart between the glass viewed as half-empty or half-full is if the trade tensions…
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has released its Empire State Manufacturing report for the month of June. While this is just one region, it is viewed as being close to a real-time…
The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank's model now projects real GDP growth in the second quarter that looks better than prior forecasts but is still shy of the first quarter,
War-torn, impoverished and politically unstable, the least peaceful nation in the world can be found in Central Asia, according to a well-respected global study of how people feel about their own countries.
When investors and economists see that the Consumer Price Index barely rose in May, they probably want to shrug, even if prices for the shelter and food indexes increased.
In its latest survey of global CFOs, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business found that most expect the global economy to be in recession next year.
Sometimes it seems as if almost every regional statistic these days can be color-coded red or blue, with sharp divides according to the states’ voting patterns. But that’s not the case with average child…
