A feared recession didn’t materialize, but unemployment rose, wage growth slowed and affordability challenges are mounting.

What is a recession? What are the key indicators of a recession? How do government and central banks respond to recessions? What are the causes of recessions? How can individuals and businesses ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. The last two recessions before the pandemic show that the ...

Recession worries are spreading, but analysts don’t expect a dire economic slowdown in 2025 and are looking for growth to reaccelerate next year. Heightened risk factors like a rapidly cooling labor ...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 01, 2025 in New York City. Senior Correspondent After two years of doing their own back-breaking yard work on ...

Just 20 days ago, the US stock market was sitting at all-time highs. The US economy appeared to be growing at a solid pace. And a recession was nowhere in sight. Now, the R-word is seemingly ...

The whiplash from the Donald Trump administration’s on-again, off-again tariff policy is leading to a lot of uncertainty on Wall Street and stirring worries that an old economic menace, stagflation, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quantitative Finance Program Director, at Stevens Inst. of Technology This is not a new diagnosis. There is today a hapless ...

President Donald Trump has rarely passed up the opportunity to tell Americans that the U.S. economy, with his hand at the wheel, is roaring. His administration has held up GDP growth rates, high ...