For its current financial worries, Generation X blames inflation. And the COVID-19 pandemic. And the Great Recession. And the ...

Economic uncertainty often forces a shift in how we spend and save. During the Great Recession of the late 2000s — when unemployment hit 10% and home values dropped by 30% — many tightened their ...

Many Americans are facing significant economic headwinds. The job market is tight, and prices are stubbornly high, with little relief in sight. For many people, this may remind them of the Great ...

Universities and colleges across the country have been dealing with a ticking time bomb since the Great Recession, and a growing number of them are saying that it’s about to go off, next semester. A ...

Speaking to the Illinois CPA Society on Thursday, Fifth Third Bank's Chief Economist Jeffrey Korzenik suggested baby boomers ...

Toumas Malinen, a professor who specializes in financial crises, said the US economy looked dangerously close to a recession.

It seems like everyone is constantly complaining about how horrible the job market is these days, which led some people to reflect on how job hunting now compares to doing so during the Great ...

When the subprime crisis broke in the 2008 presidential election year, there was little chance for a serious discussion of its root causes. Candidate Barack Obama weaponized the crisis by blaming ...

We examine how contractions in local labor demand during the Great Recession affected children's academic achievement. We combine county-level test scores for grades 3–8 from the Stanford Education ...

Is the Great Recession sexist? If you listen to the Obama and Romney campaigns, you’d swear it was. Republicans are pushing the point that the bad economy has been particularly tough on women.

Last year was the best for "missing middle" home construction since before the Great Recession, according to the National Association of Home Builders. NAHB tracked 19,000 total starts of two- to four ...