In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.

The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...

In the 21st century, U.S. economic data has become embedded in the life of the nation. It determines increases in Social Security benefits for retirees, influences the purchases of auto and home ...

The full story is more complicated. Trump is broadly right on the question of how much leverage the need for foreign access ...

She also hit back at Trump inflating his polling numbers on CNBC, noting that he’s instead seen a “slow dissent” since he returned to the Oval Office in January. “It is such a polarized era that it’s ...