A strong labor market isn’t enough to win elections. That reality could shape how the government responds to the next economic downturn.

Presidents get too much credit or too much blame for the economy, it’s often said, but the public never fails to render its ...

U.S. stocks finished higher on Friday, the final trading day of Biden's term in office. All three major benchmarks posted weekly gains amid a retreat in Treasury yields. Investors were also looking ...

The economy rebounded strongly from the COVID shock, but the U.S. continues to grapple with a cost-of-living crisis and ...

The jobless rate soared to 14.8% at the height of the pandemic, but by the time Biden took office, it had dropped to 6.4%. It then fell steadily to 3.4% by 2023 as the U.S. recovered fully from the ...

The Federal Reserve said Friday that it is leaving an international grouping of central banks that focused on how the ...

The super-rich have long played a role in U.S. politics but have an unusually prominent spot in incoming President Donald ...

If public opinion polls are the guide, Joe Biden has been the worst president since Richard Nixon. Here's why that may be ...

A top economic adviser to President Joe Biden warned that Donald Trump’s incoming administration risks reigniting inflation if it interferes with the Federal Reserve’s policymaking on interest rates.

In an open letter to the American public ahead of the speech, Biden alluded to the fact that a central promise of his 2020 ...

Prices rose by more than incomes during Biden's four years in office. A change in presidents doesn't mean the problem is solved.

But hobbled by inflation, illegal immigration and his own advancing age, Mr. Biden leaves office as an unpopular one-term ...