Americans’ confidence in the economy improved after Republicans won big in the 2024 election earlier this month, a new survey found. The Gallup poll, released Tuesday, shows that Americans rank their confidence in the economy as -17,

President-elect Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada would reignite inflation in 2025, hurt the economy, experts say.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to conduct “the largest deportation effort in American history,” no matter the price tag—but the economic costs of such a campaign may be bigger than he has bargained for.

U.S. trading partners are better equipped now to deal with President-elect Donald's tariff threats than they were during his first administration, according to experts.

This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap?

A change in presidential economic policy generates curiosity and concern about the direction and flow of interest rates or which economic sectors could flourish under the upcoming

The economy sped up in November and kept the U.S. on track for another strong quarter of growth, fueled by optimism about falling interest rates and the prospect of a pro-business Trump administration,

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Friday hosted a dinner to thank longtime supporters on the White House South Lawn. In one of his last appearances in America's top job, Biden listed a number of accomplishments and reflected on the legacy of his time in office.

"The U.S economy is the envy of the world," said Rutgers Business School finance professor Parul Jain. "Why didn’t that message get through to the electorate?” “There’s always a big lag between objective economic indicators and public opinion ...

When Donald Trump first entered the White House in 2017, Cyrus Razzaghi was running an Iranian business consultancy, advising US, Japanese and European companies about how to grab opportunities in a market emerging from years of economic isolation.

This dichotomy shows up neatly in the latest University of Michigan consumer sentiment data. The sentiment index for Republicans jumped from 53.6 in October to 69.1 in November, putting it at the highest level since shortly after President Joe Biden took office in 2021.

It seems like Donald Trump was serious about those tariffs — he's already threatening to put new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China as soon as he takes office. So what does that mean for Americans and for the economy?