Inflation Was Moderate in July, but Energy Prices Remain Elevated
Inflation continued to ease last month from its war-driven surge earlier in the year, but prices still remain at a ...
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Live Updates: Persistent Inflation Pressures in Focus
Aug. 12, 2026, 7:26 a.m. ETBenign inflation data would reduce the urgency around a September rate rise.Kevin M. Warsh, the ...
Should You Be Dating While Unemployed?
An electrical engineer, a technician, a NASA employee. Those were the people Claire Doty thought she was going on first ...
Weak Jobs Report Does Not Eliminate Prospects of Interest Rate Rise
July’s jobs report has reduced some of the urgency around the need for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, ...
Labor Market Shifts Into Reverse as Employers Balk at Hiring
The labor market posted a modest loss in July, as businesses shed jobs in the face of renewed tariffs and ...
Why So Many C.E.O.s Are Getting a Chief of Staff
An executive assistant “figures out what time something goes on the calendar, but a chief of staff figures out whether ...
TikTok Is Laying Off 250 Employees in Its Nashville Office
TikTok’s U.S. joint venture said on Wednesday that it was shuttering its Nashville office, a space that housed, in part, ...
In Lawsuit, NJ Accuses Amazon of Suppressing Pay for Delivery Drivers
New Jersey’s attorney general sued Amazon under federal antitrust law on Tuesday, accusing the company of abusing its market power ...
What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?
Corporate America was enthusiastic about artificial intelligence. Until it got the bill.Whiplash around spending on “tokens,” the units of computing ...
The Fed’s Christopher Waller Warns of Higher Rates if Inflation Stays High
A top official at the Federal Reserve said the central bank might soon have to raise interest rates if this ...
Economists Warn of A.I. Threat
Artificial intelligence could transform the economy faster than any previous technology, and policymakers must move equally quickly to figure out ...
New York Times Accuses Federal Employment Agency of Retaliation
The New York Times said in a court filing on Friday that the Trump administration had violated the newspaper’s First ...
Why the Jobs Market Has Wall Street and Washington on Edge
Expect a tight security cordon around the Garden, including hundreds of police officers. The nuptials are casting a spotlight on ...
Latest Jobs Report Shows Labor Market Is Not a Source of Inflationary Pressure
Kevin M. Warsh made one thing abundantly clear in his first weeks as chairman of the Federal Reserve. With inflation ...
U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady but Slower Pace
What to know about the report.Employment figures for June showed the American economy continues to stride past obstacles including the ...
June Jobs Report Shows US Labor Market Making Slower but Steady Gains
Retail spending continues to be a strength in U.S. commerce overall, even if that resilience is concentrated among consumers in ...
A.I. Is Reshaping the Economy. Good Luck Measuring How.
Pretty much everyone agrees that artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape the economy in the coming decades. But no ...
A.I. ‘Employees’ Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways
Over the past year or two, companies have started using so-called artificial intelligence agents as bona fide “employees,” even including ...
In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
“I thought when I’d make $200k I would be able to basically not worry about money at all,” she said, ...
How Remote Work Has Helped a Generation of Working Parents
Kerry Donovan, a trial lawyer, had such a demanding career that she wasn’t sure about having children. The pandemic changed ...
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