Job openings fell last month to the lowest level in three-and-a-half years, data from the Department of Labor showed Tuesday. Openings declined to 7.44 million in September from 7.86 million in the prior month, the Department of Labor’s Job Openings
Economist Robert J. Gordon’s recent study on economic indicators and electoral outcomes offers a data-driven forecast for the Biden-Harris administration’s reelection chances, and the numbers don’t look promising for the Democrats.
Inflation appears to be causing Americans to pull back on their Halloween plans.
With just over a week to go before the election, Donald Trump holds a big lead over Kamala Harris on the economy.
The Kamala Harris campaign was probably feeling a bit of emotional whiplash on Friday morning as the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment barometer released the final results prior to the election.
Kamala Harris continues to trail Donald Trump by large margins on economic issues, poll by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal released this week found, as Haris has largely failed to convince the public that she will not continue the
As Donald Trump has surged in polls, consumer sentiment among Republicans is soaring.
When it comes to the economy, Harris may have the Nobel laureates in her corner, but Trump’s got the American people.
Polls show voters endorse Trump’s view of tariffs.
The Fed’s cut is being reversed in the mortgage market.
Donald Trump’s proposal for a 60 percent tariff on all Chinese imports has elicited cries of anguish from all the usual suspects. Fortunately, their gloom and doom have little basis in economics.
Many Americans fear a Harris election would hurt the economy.
A poll released this week by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests that Kamala Harris has closed the gap on the key issue of the economy. But is the poll accurate?
But the IMF’s forecasts missed the surge of inflation in 2022.
The Biden campaign and the Harris campaign believed that sentiment around the economy would improve this year, depriving Trump of his best issue.
Trump is ahead by wide margins on the economy, inflation, and immigration.
So much for that manufacturing boom Harris and Walz keep touting.
While the media has focused on Trump’s colorful claims about his love for tariffs, few have noticed the bold innovation behind his trade strategy, which amounts to a revolution in thinking about trade that completely upends the core arguments against tariffs.
Despite Democratic hopes that the public’s attention would shift from the economy, it remains just as important as it was when the year began.
Trump’s vision for tariffs—far from the straw man of “protectionism” that critics love to decry—is something new, bold, and based on a strategy that undercuts the standard arguments against tariffs.
More data suggesting the Fed’s super-sized cut was a mistake or a political move.
Jobs, inflation, and retail sales all ran above expectations in September, casting doubt on the Fed’s big rate cut last month.
Donald Trump has a commanding lead with the public on the economy, having successfully fended off efforts by Kamala Harris to convince voters that her leadership would turn the country away from the widely disliked Biden economic legacy.
Nearly one-third of voters think their household financial situation will be better a year from now than today.
Donald Trump’s tariffs are popular with a commanding majority of American voters—and extremely unpopular among Wall Street economists.
Voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania are defying predictions they would move toward Harris on the economy as the election neared.
More economic fallout from the worst inflation in four decades.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) was widely criticized last month when he complained about the price of eggs approaching four dollars.
Food prices are rising at the fastest rate since January of 2023.
Claims were likely boosted by hurricane Helene.
Core inflation unexpectedly accelerated in September.
The frustration of the pundit class with the dismal opinion of the American electorate on the U.S. economy is reaching a fever pitch.
After the Fed’s surprise 50-basis-point cut in September, the burning question now is whether the central bank overplayed its hand.
Americans prefer Trump’s economic policies over Harris’s by significant margins.
The Federal Reserve’s 50-basis-point rate cut in September wasn’t just premature—it was driven by political pressures.
Was there an October surprise in the just-released September jobs numbers? Only if you’re surprised by what’s been happening for decades.
Economists had been expecting 132,500 jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.2 percent.
In the fevered imaginations of Trump’s policies, tariffs threaten bring global trade to its knees, provoke retaliatory measures, and hit consumers with higher prices. The ghost of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 looms large, ready to serve as the ultimate cautionary tale.
Inflationary pressures, however, are heating up again.
So much for the manufacturing boom Kamala Harris keeps talking about.
