As a Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren rang the alarm bell in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Now a veteran senator, she is ringing that bell again.

The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered sacrosanct by investors and economists.

Taken together, the impact of President Trump’s whirlwind six months back in office is showing up in the economy.The effect isn’t yet enough to derail the economy, which by many measures has weathered Trump’s trade wars much better than many on Wall Street and in Washington feared.

Slok said that he “absolutely” believes that inflation has already caused a “lift off” on consumer goods. Data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday showed that inflation accelerated in June, signaling that Trump’s trade wars are leaving an initial impact on the economy.

Jr. and Omeed Malik rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as renegades. They had just turned PublicSquare, a Yelp-like directory of con

For investors, the risk now is that the slow drip of news on tariffs leads to complacency about the damage they might cause-the Nasdaq stock index closed a record high yesterday.

A Fed policy rate that low is not typically a sign that the U.S. is the "hottest" country in the world for investment, as Trump has said.

A California-based chip manufacturer pulled its plans to build a $55 billion facility in Genesee County at a time when fewer Americans trust President Donald Trump’s economic policies. SanDisk for the past two years had eyed Mundy Township as the home of a new factory that could have created up to 10,

Last week, the president enacted a sprawling set of tax cuts that he believes to be the ingredients for rapid economic growth, even as fiscal experts warned that the law may injure the poor while putting the U.S. government on a risky new fiscal path.

BERLIN (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs threaten the American economy at least as much the European one, German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said on Wednesday, calling for a "fair deal" with the Americans. "Trump's tariffs have only losers," Klingbeil said.

The University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey shows vibes around the economy far below historic norms, but they're "inching up."