The inauguration of President Donald Trump for a second term has initiated a significant reconfiguration of the U.S. economy ...

With the fifth anniversary of the pandemic behind us, many might be surprised to learn that the $5.3 trillion fiscal response ...

The economy is big, complex and difficult for most people to understand. In reality, the president may not have as much control over the economy as people tend to think -- the Federal Reserve, for ...

With few exceptions, the U.S. economy has been steadily growing for 16 years. An intriguing correlation exists between U.S. recessions and the political party in power -- and it's potentially ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to plunge Canada into an election campaign on Sunday, as US President Donald Trump’s trade war sharpens the focus on fixing long-standing problems that ...

Consumer confidence plummeted in February, indicating worry about the direction of the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump. A gauge of consumer confidence registered its largest monthly drop ...

From LBJ to Biden: How the Economy Performed Under Each President. Bob Haegele. February 22, ... If the economy does well, an incumbent president has a much better chance of being reelected.

President-elect Trump has taken an opening shot at rewriting the global economic order with his threats of tariffs against Mexico and Canada, as well as China and other BRICS+ countries. While the ...

President Jimmy Carter kept the national debt down, ... A look at each category, ... by the 1980s made the U.S. economy more competitive and enabled economic recovery under Reagan. ...

In each of those categories, we compare performance under the current president with seven prior presidents going back to Jimmy Carter in the 1970s at the same point in their first term. (Here’s ...

Responding to the failures of Enron and Worldcom within six months of each other, failures that didn’t spook the markets much at all, President George W. Bush zestily signed into law Sarbanes-Ox ...