Economy

Entrepreneurs say use of artificial intelligence for a variety of tasks is accelerating the path to hiring and, ideally, profitability.

By Sydney Ember

Both candidates embrace expansions of government power to steer economic outcomes — but in vastly different areas.

By Jim Tankersley

Price increases when demand exceeds supply are textbook economics. The question is whether, and how much, the pandemic yielded an excess take.

By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek

Consumer spending is a crucial driver of economic growth, and a new report showing a rise in sales allayed recession fears.

By Danielle Kaye

The vice president is leaning into an effort to partly blame big companies for inflation, as progressives have pushed her to embrace that argument.

By Jim Tankersley

The vice president is expected to recalibrate President Biden’s policy themes in a bid to turn the Democratic economic agenda into an asset.

By Jim Tankersley and Andrew Duehren

Grocery prices are no longer rising as rapidly, but food inflation remains a top issue for voters, polls show.

By Madeleine Ngo

The recently established U.S.-China Financial Working Group is set to meet for discussions about financial stability and curbing the flow of fentanyl.

By Alan Rappeport

The Summer Games will be the third for Los Angeles as host, but it will be a challenge to repeat the financial success of 1984.

By Kurtis Lee

Nationalist hatred has been linked to forces like stagnant wages and declining services, even though research shows immigration helps many economies.

By Patricia Cohen