Economy

A federal judge on Friday said he would not immediately block the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing systems at the Labor Department. U.S. District Judge John Bates...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and US President Donald Trump have struck a warm tone in their first meeting, with Tokyo avoiding tariffs that Trump has slapped on other allies...

Bessent Explains the Trump Is Not Demanding Rate Cuts Now We got some powerful support this week for our argument that President Donald Trump is not demanding that the Federal...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Mexico thwarts U.S. tariffs for now, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio takes his first tour of the region, and...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it : Generating decent, but unspectacular, job growth. When the Labor Department releases January employment numbers Friday, they’re likely...

The U.S. added 143,000 jobs in January — fewer than economists expected — while the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised down the number of payrolls created since last March by...

India’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in nearly five years as officials try to reverse slowing economic growth in the world’s most populous...

The Peterson Institute’s Misguided Tariff Panic The Peterson Institute for International Economics is once again warning that Donald Trump’s tariff proposals would spell economic disaster. But their latest analysis, rather...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the nation’s trade deficit, which the Commerce Department reported Wednesday reached a new record high.  But the same Commerce report showed the value of...

Honeywell International Inc., one of America’s last industrial conglomerates, plans to split into three independent companies, mirroring the broader trend of breaking up sprawling industrial giants as investors push for...