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With Kamala Harris, U.S. Free Trade Skepticism May Continue
The vice president has been critical of past trade deals. But her record suggests she could push for trade measures that address environmental issues.
By Ana Swanson
The vice president has been critical of past trade deals. But her record suggests she could push for trade measures that address environmental issues.
By Ana Swanson
The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index climbed 2.5 percent, still more than the Fed’s 2 percent target, as price increases take time to come down.
By Jeanna Smialek
Participation in the labor force has surged among women in their prime working years. But for those with children under 5, the gains may have peaked.
By Sydney Ember
Trends already underway make for a sunny outlook over the next few years. The question is who will get to take credit.
By Jeanna Smialek
Gross domestic product rose at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the second quarter, new evidence of the economy’s resilience despite high interest rates.
By Ben Casselman
President Biden has not given his vice president an expansive economic portfolio. But she has engaged on issues of small-business lending, help for parents and more.
By Jim Tankersley, Jeanna Smialek and Ana Swanson
Community banks are big commercial real-estate lenders. But they say their loans are to sturdy local businesses, not those facing vacant office space.
By Matthew Goldstein and Emily Flitter
A federal judge in Pennsylvania denied a request to delay the rule, siding with the agency and diverging from another court’s decision this month.
By Danielle Kaye
Much of President Biden’s agenda polls well, but voters roundly dislike his handling of the economy. That’s a campaign challenge for his vice president, as she mounts a presidential bid.
By Jim Tankersley
The East Solano Plan, a proposal for a walkable urban community in a rural corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, stoked tension, fear and mistrust among some neighbors.
By Conor Dougherty
As a presidential candidate in the past, the former California senator pushed for higher taxes and bigger housing investments.
By Alan Rappeport
Antitrust cases contend that use of RealPage’s algorithm, which lets property owners share private data, amounts to collusion.
By Danielle Kaye
A proposal to make landlords’ tax breaks contingent on rent limits has drawn industry pushback, progressive applause and some alternative approaches.
By Talmon Joseph Smith
The sudden popularity of exempting tips from taxes is a reminder of the improvisational nature of economic policymaking under Donald Trump.
By Andrew Duehren
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Ford, General Motors and other automakers are slowing investments in electric vehicles and doubling down on more profitable gasoline cars and trucks.
By Neal E. Boudette
Some Republicans want to use revenue collected from higher duties on foreign goods to finance tax cuts. Economists say such a shift could widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
By Ana Swanson, Andrew Duehren and Luke Broadwater
Both candidates on the Republican ticket have argued that the U.S. currency should be weaker to support American exports.
By Alan Rappeport
The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional cash. Some say it’s time to scale up.
By David Streitfeld
The International Monetary Fund warned that inflation remained stubbornly high and that protectionism posed a risk to the global economic outlook.
By Alan Rappeport
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, avoided signaling when the Fed would cut rates at a time when some economists are wondering why officials would wait.
By Jeanna Smialek
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