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Rising bond yields a sign of concern about the economy
Concern about America’s financial future reached new levels recently when 30-year Treasury yields rose to their highest ...
Job growth held steady in May, but new signs of economic trouble emerge
U.S. job growth over the first five months of 2025 is the worst since the Great Recession. When Donald Trump says the economy ...
Trump's tariffs could pay for his tax cuts — but it likely wouldn't be much of a bargain
Actually using import taxes – tariffs – to finance a big chunk of the federal government would be a painful and perilous ...
U.S. economy created 139,000 May jobs, higher than expected
The latest U.S. jobs report Friday showed 139,000 jobs created in May. It was a bit higher than economists expected amid a ...
Council on Foreign Relations1d
The Founding History of the WTO and Role of the United States
This article was originally published online by the Association of Women in International Trade in the 2025 Summer Communiqué ...
US economic outlook slashed by OECD as Trump's tariffs upend global growth
The dampened outlook for the U.S. mirrors a slowdown expected for the global economy, the OECD said, predicting global ...
Transportation chief seeks to weaken fuel economy standards, calls Biden-era rule 'illegal'
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says Biden-era fuel economy standards for gas-guzzling cars and trucks are illegal and ...
CBO says tariffs will shrink the economy and add to inflation but reduce the deficit
The analysis found that shrinking of the U.S. economy would vary but said that tariffs would reduce gross domestic product ...
What May’s jobs report tells us about Trump tariffs and the state of the economy
Trump’s aggressive and unpredictable policies – especially his sweeping taxes on imports – have muddied the outlook.
The Economist6d
The fantastical world of Republican economic thinking
The Reagan National Economic Forum is not a typical gathering of business leaders, academics and think-tankers. Among the crowd were the elites of the American right, old and new. The Republican ...