Up until February, Joya Patel was an employee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Becoming a civil servant again would be no easy task right now.

Americans are increasingly using buy now, pay later services to finance purchases ranging from luxury goods to weekly groceries. A 2024 study from the Boston Federal Reserve found that women are 68% ...

AI researchers are getting recruited like professional athletes. But stacking a team with expensive stars doesn’t always work out.

Despite stubborn inflation and falling consumer confidence, consumer spending continues to climb. Plus, the rise of women-targeted “buy now, pay later” services.

Fed independence has been a strength of the U.S. financial system, but what happens if that disappears?

Trump’s pick to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics has suggested pausing the report, a proposal that investors, companies, and policymakers would not be fond of.

We can look to Hungary for an example of what happens when a central bank’s role becomes more political than economic.

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So do you believe the AI trade - and by extension, the growth of the value we've seen in The Magnificent Seven stocks - do you think all of that is overvalued in the market right now? Dean Smith: The ...

From the BBC World Service: The United States has ended a long-running global tax exemption on imports worth $800 or less.