John Carney

Increased productivity signals tariffs are not hurting American manufacturers.

In fact, wages are beating inflation and layoffs are at record lows.

Prior to Trump’s presidency, Hispanic unemployment had never been this low.

Unemployment of African-Americans has never been so low.

Trump is right: 5.3 million jobs have been added to the U.S economy since election day 2016.

The People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949 putting us in year 70 of the 100-year marathon.

The Trump economy needs to add 208,000 every month to hit its goal of 25 million over ten years. It’s averaging 241,000.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. It was the Fed chairman’s 66th birthday. The Federal Reserve said the two men discussed recent economic developments and the outlook for growth, employment, and

The private equity guys may have found some very good friends in an unexpected place: the U.S. Senate’s liberal Democrats.

American households

President Donald Trump’s critics have accused him of using the presidency to enrich himself and even of originally seeking the presidency as a marketing stunt to promote the Trump brand.

The company said it changed its mind after “discussions with the White House.”

The GOP Senator wants to return Fannie and Freddie to the private market but also cap their market share and introduce competition in the mortgage guarantee business.

Home building made a surprising comeback in November.

No big bounce from the end of the shutdown.

Factory activity increased and, despite all the worries about tariffs, prices of raw materials used by manufacturers fell.

Economists had expected 158,000 after December’s sizzling 312,000.

But Cain’s past record suggests that he might not be the interest rate dove Trump is looking for.

New-home sales ran at a seasonally adjusted annual 657,000 rate in November, the best rate in eight months.

Jobless claims were expected to come in at 220,000.

The Federal Reserve now agrees with President Donald Trump on interest rates.

Foxconn planned to build a huge liquid-crystal display factory in Wisconsin. Then the bottom fell out of the market for televisions.

Maybe the labor market did not suffer as much as expected during the government shutdown.

A spokesman just shot down the notion that Trump Administration might unilaterally release Fannie and Freddie from government control.

U.S. officials will meet with counterparts from China in Washington, DC this week.

Confidence fell for the third consecutive month but remains quite high by historical standards.

Just days before trade negotiations are set to resume, federal prosecutors formally levelled charged against the Chinese telecom giant Monday.

China’s economic weakness is bleeding over into U.S. companies with big exposures to sales in Asia.

Another Chinese tech company that cannot operate without buying from U.S. tech companies.

Economic growth accelerated and was much stronger than expected in January, according to a basket of indicators collected by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.