Fed data shows a surprising financial arc for Americans in their 30s, with a long slump giving way to a rebound that changed ...

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

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

Has inequality declined over the course of the recession and the recovery? In a recent paper, Stephen Rose of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy contends that the answer is yes. He ...

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 ...

From January through July 1980, the United States was in a recession. The S&P 500 gained 15.04% over the course of the ...

A "job seeker recession" is taking hold as hiring slows, leaving many Americans struggling to find work without the safety net of past downturns.

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 ...

The number of properties sold in California over the past three years was 24% lower than the same time period before the Great Recession, sparking fears of a statewide crash. The Golden State had ...

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 ...

The numbers tell a stark story. More than 88,000 trucking companies ceased operations in 2023. Freight companies filed 21 bankruptcy petitions in the third quarter of 2025 alone. Long-haul truckload ...