Economy News How A Strong Economy May Not Work For Biden Or Trump In 2024

Fact checking Trump's recent claims about the economy

President Trump frequently touts a U.S. economy that's on the rise under his stewardship: he talks about energy and grocery prices that are falling, lower mortgage rates and claims he's vanquished ... Read More

Nobel-Winning Economist Warns Trump’s Economy Is In ‘Worse Shape Than It Looks’

Paul Krugman has a dire warning about the U.S. economy under Trump. The economist warned readers that “what looks like a fairly benign economy on the surface is actually hurting workers” in a lengthy ... Read More

The Trump Economy Is Here, and It’s So Much Worse Than Biden’s

While President Donald Trump continues to gamble with the U.S. economy—threatening tariffs, chickening out on tariffs, attempting to bully the Federal Reserve, interfering with the Bureau of Labor ... Read More

Trump faces backlash on economy as inflation rises

President Trump is facing growing pressure over his handling of the economy as inflation rises, the job market weakens and American exporters suffer backlash from his trade agenda. Federal data ... Read More

Steve Rattner: Why Trump’s economy is working for some Americans and not others

The economic analyst pulled back the curtain to explain why the economy appears to be working well for some but not others. Rattner noted that between 2024 and 2025, the U.S.'s gross domestic product ... Read More

Government shutdowns usually don’t hurt the economy. This time could be different

Government shutdowns can be political earthquakes that paralyze Washington, DC. But for the economy, shutdowns are often barely a blip. Whatever economic damage occurs during that time tends to be ... Read More

There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else

Ms. Sarin, a contributing Opinion writer, is a professor at Yale Law School and the president of the Budget Lab at Yale. She served in the Treasury Department during the Biden administration. Since ... Read More