A quarterly review finds that the U.S. economy’s increasingly K-shaped nature is making American consumption patterns uneven ...

Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here and on TikTok here. Planet Money Summer School is back! It's the free economics class you can take from anywhere... for everyone! This summer, we ...

The federal shutdown — one month long and counting — has an obvious economic impact for government workers who aren’t receiving paychecks and food aid recipients who could lose their benefits Nov. 1.

The word “inflation” is everywhere today, and it continues to shape how people feel about the economy. That’s the case despite the pace of inflation retreating from its high of June 2022, when prices ...

According to several economic data points, the foundation of the U.S. economy appears to be breaking -- and Wall Street has, ...

President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969 - but red flags remain The U.S. labor market heated up in December, adding more jobs than expected ...

The U.S. economy didn’t get any better during the longest government shutdown in history, but the good news is that it probably didn’t get much worse.

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And when those who fail to learn hold the reins of power and society’s purse strings, they do so at our expense. “Taxes Have Consequences: ...

As is often the case, President Trump is half-right. But he’s going way overboard when he insists that, “in many ways this is the greatest economy in the history of America.” It’s not, and the reasons ...

For at least the past half century, most economists have viewed the history of slavery in the United States as morally abhorrent but economically advantageous. The argument has run that allocating ...

Black History Month is an opportunity to look to our past for lessons on our future path to justice, economic security and stronger democracy everyone deserves. We see time and again that you cannot ...