The real winners in today's economy are the middlemen — rich intermediary companies like Walmart, Airbnb, and Lyft that ...

The nation’s biggest bankers proclaimed this week that the economy is sturdy, the U.S. consumer is healthy, and they haven’t seen much change in recent months. Yet they still sounded uneasy about what ...

The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest ...

If California were its own country, it would outrank Japan. The state's economy hit about $4.1 trillion in 2024, sliding past Japan's $4.02 trillion while leaving only the U.S., China, and Germany ...

Washington (CNN) — The US economy expanded sharply in the second quarter as businesses dialed back on imports after stocking up earlier in the year to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) often points to California’s economy as a source of pride, but critics argue the figures mask the everyday hardships residents face and fail to capture the state’s broader ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...