By John Hood Recessions hurt. North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate hit 11.2 percent during the peak of the Great Recession in 2010. During the COVID-era Great Suppression of 2020, it briefly ...

Elsewhere, global economic developments include job cuts in Britain and potential clashes in Saudi Arabia's investment ambitions.

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The Trump administration’s ‘backing away from tariffs quickly’‘ would diminish the chances of a recession in the U.S. and this in turn would give a boost to the global tech services market comprising ...

Unless the administration pivots away from its current punitive, protectionist approach and adopts a more stable, globally ...

The Russian economy is experiencing a significant slowdown. GDP in the first quarter increased by only 1.4 percent, which is ...

President Donald Trump's move to defuse an ugly trade war with China not only sparked a massive stock-market rally but also drove down the chances of a recession - for now. The U.S. and China agreed ...

Increased tariffs pose a risk of material slowdowns to both the US and global economy, though the likelihood of a global ...

President Donald Trump, fresh off a trip to the Middle East, renewed his criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ...

President Trump said Friday that the US will set tariff rates for its trading partners within the next few weeks. He said his ...

Conditions appeared dire for the stock market in early April. President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise ...

The past has shown that nontraditional measures like brothels, beer and lipstick can tell us a lot about the economy’s health.