John Carney

Factory activity in the central U.S. accelerated sharply in September, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City survey released Thursday. It was the latest in a series of reports pointing to an economy gathering momentum heading into the

The bond vigilantes had a busy Wednesday, but maybe they aren’t vigilantes at all.

Bond yields continued to climb rapidly Wednesday morning, reaching their highest levels in over 19 years. The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasuries rose to 5.079 percent, up 0.12 percent from a day earlier and the highest level since July 2007.

“US business continues to boom,” said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence

Even while the American public remains in quite a sour mood about the American economy, the Federal Reserve has become increasingly bullish.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer reported progress in talks with Chinese officials ahead of this week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, while leaving unresolved the terms of an extension to

The Breitbart Business Digest Weekly Wrap: Warsh Hiked Two Interest Rates Welcome back to Friday! This was Fed week. As just about everyone expected, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) raised the fed funds rate by one-quarter of a percentage

The New York Times imagines that Trump has abdicated global economic leadership or that the rest of the world is staging a coup. Nothing like that is happening. The dollar remains king.

Claims fell back down to historic lows in early September.

The artificial intelligence industry has managed to produce a regulatory debate in which nearly everyone’s preferred solution happens to suit his business model.

“Our decision comes at a time when the economy appears to be strengthening,” Fed chairman Kevin Warsh said at a press conference on Wednesday. 

Retail sales soared in August, defying predictions that slumping consumer sentiment and rising gasoline prices would trigger a pullback in spending. Sales at retail shops and online rose 1.2 percent, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Excluding gas stations, sales rose

A cabal comprised of some of the biggest players in the artificial intelligence industry has discovered a potentially lucrative application for human intelligence: persuading Washington to regulate the sector and hold down potential competitors.

“There are ways to do it that would not affect the deficit,” Bessent said in answer to questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

It’s almost a certainty that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates on Wednesday. But the Fed could afford to wait—and probably should.

On Monday, the 10-year yield climbed from Friday’s close of 4.938 percent to as high as 5.012 percent.

The U.S. Mint is commemorating the lives lost from the Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on 9/11 with a new half-dollar coin displaying the date of the travesty encircled by the phrase “NEVER FORGET.”

The U.S. national average price of diesel on Friday surpassed $6 a ​gallon, according to the AAA motor club’s price tracker.

The consumer price index rose 0.4 percent compared with July, driven higher by rising gasoline prices, the Labor Department reported Friday. Over the year, the consumer price index is up 3.4 percent.

Ever since the August jobs report was released last week, the legacy media and liberal pundits have been highlighting the fact that the payrolls show the net gains for women dwarfed the gains for men.

Oil prices jumped to their highest levels since May amid renewed fighting in the Persian Gulf and investor concerns that the war in Iran will persist longer than previously thought. Brent crude futures crossed above $107 a barrel and WTI

The producer price index, excluding food and energy, rose 0.2 percent last month, a slowdown from the previous month’s revised 0.3 percent increase and lower than the 0.3 percent forecast by economists.

What if the future of AI’s impact on the economy is not a jobs apocalypse but a blue-collar renaissance?

Oil prices surged on Wednesday as fighting between the U.S. and Iran intensified in the Persian Gulf, raising concerns that the supply of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz could be reduced. Brent crude futures, the global benchmark for

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chided us this morning for not paying enough attention to the acceleration of business formation in the U.S., which he highlighted as one of the effects of the Trump administration’s pro-growth policies.

This will be a special edition of our weekly wrap focused on the employment situation in America.

The federal workforce has contracted by 336,000 employees since President Donald Trump took office, reflecting his administration’s drive to reduce the size of the government bureaucracy.

The blue collar boom is here, producing job gains in manufacturing and construction.

America appears to be building its way to disinflation.

Manufacturing employment increased during both the first and second quarters, with the gains concentrated in durable-goods industries. That combination is unusual: outside of post-recession rebounds, durable-goods manufacturers have not posted productivity growth of at least 3.6 percent in consecutive quarters while also adding jobs in both quarters since the late 1990s.

Steinem signed a letter opposing the WTO that was also signed by Pat Buchanan, Phyllis Schlafly, Paul Weyrich, Reagan-adviser Lyn Nofziger, Ross Perot running mate Pat Choate, American Spectator editor R. Emmet Tyrrell Jr., and Richard Viguerie.

The number of people filing for unemployment benefits inched up last week but remained at a historically low level.

Manufacturing is surging thanks to the Trump administration’s potent economic cocktail of expansionary tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and a pro-manufacturing trade policy enabled by tariffs.

Private-sector payrolls grew by 38,000 in August, human-resources firm ADP estimated in its latest monthly report. Goods-producing businesses shrank their headcounts by 10,000 in the month, including a steep 17,000 decline in manufacturing. Services providers expanded payrolls by 48,000, with

President Trump is not the sort of political leader who goes in for poets laureate. But if the movement to make America great again had one, it would be Wendell Berry, the sage of Port Royal, Kentucky.

Vacancies in durable goods manufacturing climbed to 429,000, up from 353,000 in June and 255,000 a year ago.