Tariffs and uncertainty were already making the economy hard to read. The loss of government data during the shutdown has ...

Discover Bloomberg Economics' latest analysis on key issues, including the significance of downward job revisions and the impact of US tariffs on European goods.

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the official third-quarter GDP report release, although real-time estimates from a pair of Federal Reserve banks suggest the economy grew.

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations on October 1 after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an ...

In ordinary times, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee, which usually meets eight times a year, have a wealth of information at their disposal, ...

What matters more: actual economic performance or the perception of it? Fundamentals clearly influence public opinion: if the economy is growing rapidly, people tend to notice. Yet perception can both ...

Recent moves to disband advisory committees that suggested ways to improve economic data — as well as comments from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — have raised concerns about the reliability of ...

Hilary Golston spoke with Oakland University economics expert Dr. Michael Greiner, who says the Federal Reserve is likely to ...

The integrity of the U.S. government’s economic data has come under fire after the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised payroll gains for May and June sharply lower on Aug. 1. Concerns about the ability ...

Ten years ago, close to 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement, an international treaty designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curtail global warming. Under the treaty, most nations made a ...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations on October 1 after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to extend funding past the end of the federal fiscal year on September 30 ...

Every month, the federal government serves up a steady diet of economic reports on everything from the price of groceries to the unemployment rate. These reports are closely followed: They can move ...