John Carney

A former technology employee of Freddie Mac was arrested this week after allegedly making bomb threats targeting the mortgage finance giant’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, according to a person familiar with the matter.

“What we’re going to be doing is a 25 percent tariff on all cars not made in the U.S.,” Trump said during remarks from the Oval Office.

Orders for durable goods rose far above expectations in February, climbing 0.9 percent to $289.3 billion, according to the Commerce Department’s report released Wednesday. Economists had forecast a 1.0 percent decline, but instead, businesses continued to invest heavily in big-ticket

Consumer confidence is down, business leaders are worried, and headlines are awash in recession fears. Yet actual economic data stubbornly refuse to cooperate with this gloomy narrative.

The Expectations Index — a gauge of how consumers view future income, business, and labor market conditions — plummeted to 65.2, the lowest level in 12 years.

Trump’s plan to scale back government is about more than just balancing the books. It’s about forcing the economy to confront the reality that government-driven growth is a lie.

U.S. economic growth accelerated in March, driven by a strong rebound in the services sector that more than offset a renewed decline in manufacturing.

The Treasury Secretary set a new direction for the Financial Stability Oversight Council, emphasizing growth rather than social and climate change.

The Federal Reserve’s latest projections show that tariffs are not the primary driver of higher inflation forecasts.

President Donald Trump is demanding the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, escalating a high-stakes clash between the White House and the central bank as his administration prepares to unleash a new wave of tariffs.

In an exclusive interview with “The Alex Marlow Show” podcast, Peter Navarro explained how the Trump administration plans to decisively defeat inflation and why the media is getting it all wrong.

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, holding steady at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent for a second consecutive meeting.

The U.S. economy is no longer running on government stimulus and consumption-driven policies. It is being powered by a return to production, and that is the defining economic shift of 2025.

New home construction surged in February, as housing starts jumped 11.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 million, far surpassing expectations. The increase was led by a strong rebound in single-family homebuilding, a sign that builders are

The factory sector came roaring back in President Trump’s first full month in office.

A properly designed tariff policy is not an attack on free trade. It is the only way to save it in a world where trade has been manipulated by mercantilist government policies.

The rebound suggests that Januarys bad numbers were not the beginning of a collapse in consumer spending.

Partisan consumer sentiment gaps have been growing for years, but we’ve now entered uncharted territory.

But just because consumer sentiment is driven by partisanship doesn’t mean it cannot signal economic weakness.

If you’re looking for an explanation of why the stock market has been stumbling, the financial press has a ready-made answer: blame Trump’s tariffs.

After months of soaring costs, the price of large white shell eggs fell 15 percent in early March.

Musk did not call for eliminating Social Security or Medicare. He also did not call for benefit cuts.

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail last summer.

In his first full month in office, that’s exactly what happened.

The transition away from government-driven growth was always going to be disruptive, but it is necessary for long-term stability.

Americans are far happier with the economic leadership of President Trump than they were under Joe Biden.

Americans got relief from inflation in February as prices rose at the slowest pace since last summer.

The January JOLTS report underscores a nascent blue-collar boom, particularly notable in manufacturing, as job openings and hires rose significantly in the early weeks of Trump’s second term.

Ontario backed down from a threat to raise the price of U.S.-bound electricity after Trump responded with an even bigger tariff hike.

Despite widespread media speculation about negative economic impacts from the Trump administration’s tariff policies and federal workforce reductions, the labor market data indicate ongoing stability.

The president’s move signals his determination to push back against what he sees as unfair economic policies from America’s northern neighbor

Rather than reversing the U.S. trade deficit, D.C. policymakers have allowed it to expand while simultaneously increasing the role of government to compensate for the damage it causes.

A steep and broad sell-off hit the U.S. market on Monday.

Slightly weaker than expected

Speaking today before the Economic Club of New York, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out the intellectual foundation of Trump’s economic vision, describing a comprehensive strategy designed to restore American prosperity and reclaim economic sovereignty.

President Donald Trump on Thursday paused tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods that comply with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), granting a reprieve to America’s two largest trading partners. Trump signed an order modifying the tariffs he put in place earlier

President Trump’s tariff policies are a recognition that America cannot fix its economy without confronting the policies of surplus nations that have spent decades rigging the system in their favor.