John Carney

At the core of Trump’s dispute with the Fed is the growth potential of the U.S. economy. Trump wants 4%, the Fed wants 1.8%.

The export ban could cripple Beijing’s plan to dominate the manufacturing of high-performance supercomputers.

A major victory for defenders of religious symbols and monuments on public land.

A much worse than expected reading from the Philadelphia Fed’s survey of manufacturing businesses for June.|

The Fed concluded its two-day meeting with tweaks to its statement on policy and the economy while leaving rates unchanged.

This is the most important Fed meeting in years. Will the Fed cut rates or just promise to cut rates later this summer?

After weeks of speculation about whether President Trump and Xi would meet in Japan, Trump says the meeting will happen.

Comments from the European Central Bank send the Euro lower and prompt a response from President Trump.

The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out an Oregon court ruling against bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

The New York Fed’s Empire State index took fell into negative territory for the first time in more than two years.

Consumers expect long-term a inflation rate of just 2.2 percent, the lowest rate recorded over the past 40 years.

Retail sales were stronger than initially reported in April and strong again in May, indicating better economic growth.

May industrial output figures from the Fed show the manufacturing sector is holding up better than expected amid trade war with China.

The idea that tariffs would drive up prices is finally fading from respectability. | %%primary_category%%

The Fed was wrong to assume moving production out of China necessarily imposes deadweight costs or efficiency losses

Prices for imported goods from China fell 0.1 percent and are down 1.4 percent from a year ago. And prices from outside of China also fell.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose by 3,000 to 222,000 last week.

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden promises his election will cure China’s unfair trade practices by means of his optimism.

The data defy the dire predictions of experts who forecast consumers would foot the bill for tariffs. 

The acting White House chief of staff explained this morning’s price data. Importers pay tariffs but consumer prices aren’t rising.

Claims that the China or metals tariffs are squeezing consumers lack any basis in fact, the most recent inflation data show.

“Optimism among small business owners has surged back to historically high levels” said NFIB President and CEO Juanita D. Duggan.

Factory jobs expanded to match the highest ever levels on record, defying predictions of tariff-induced manufacturing stress.

“They made a big mistake. They raised interest rates far too fast,” Trump said in a phone interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“Based on my opinion and a lot of knowledge, China’s going to make a deal because they have to make a deal,” Trump said.

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“There’s been a lot of talks, a lot of progress made,” White House economist Kevin Hasset said on Friday morning.

Economists had expected the pace of job creation to moderate to 180,000 after April’s extremely hot 263,000.

What did Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, bring to the table in a big private equity deal in China? Well, his father was vice president at the time.

Recessions are inevitable but that does not mean one is on the horizon, despite dire headlines in the media.