Longer-term bond yields are at some of the highest levels seen since right before the Great Recession in 2007.

The economy doesn’t have to be in a full-blown recession for Americans to feel like their wallets are getting squeezed. Right now, more than half say their finances are moving in the wrong direction, ...

It's a matter of when -- not if -- the market finally crashes.

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

More Americans are worried about their financial situation today than they were during the economic devastation of the 2008 Great Recession. The figure is particularly stunning as it is higher than ...

The lowest points in the stock market can also be the starting point for big rallies.

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 labor market can look healthy in a headline while deteriorating underneath. The August jobs report showed payrolls increased by 162,000, while the unemployment rate held at 4.1%, numbers that ...

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 variation in a state-level measure of local economic-policy uncertainty during the 2007-2009 recession matches the cross-sectional distribution of unemployment outcomes in this period. This ...

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 ...

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 ...