While spending soared to almost $12 billion, per one estimate, the data shows a more complicated economic picture.

Jeff Schulze, Head of Economic and Market Strategy at ClearBridge Investments, discusses key spending, employment and other ...

The entire stock market, and therefore the entire economy, depends on it maintaining pretty impossible growth metrics.

Some 48.5 million Americans aged 12 and above have a substance use disorder, according to a 2023 SAMHSA report.

In a K-shaped economy where the “have-nots” are increasingly falling behind the “haves,” the labor market is trending toward a similar fate.

The US economy is on solid footing right now. Economists at Bank of America expect it to stay that way through next year. In a research note released to reporters on Monday, BofA's economics team led ...

John Rapley is an author and academic who divides his time among London, Johannesburg and Ottawa. His books include Why Empires Fall (Yale University Press, 2023) and Twilight of the Money Gods (Simon ...

Fear stalks the world’s markets. A smorgasbord of American economic data, delayed by the recent federal government shutdown, is due, and investors are deeply anxious about what it may reveal – namely, ...

John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Monday’s sharp selloff on the New York ...