Speakers at IBJ’s Technology Power Breakfast, including Purdue University President Mung Chiang, talked about the changes that artificial intelligence is bringing and what people can do to be ready.
Should the conflict wind down in a week or two, its economic effects would be minor and short-lived, economists say.
The story the Trump team is telling — that a visionary Federal Reserve chair, Alan Greenspan, fueled the 1990s boom by keeping interest rates low — is incomplete at best.
The 191-country lending organization’s assessment of the world’s biggest economy was mostly positive.
Home Depot and other retailers have seen customers cut back on their spending amid concerns about inflation and economic uncertainty.
The measure of Americans’ short-term expectations for their income, business conditions and the job market rose four points, to 72.
Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller also said that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down many of Trump’s tariffs would likely have only a limited impact on the economy and inflation, and therefore wouldn’t affect his view on rates.
The figures point to a more modest pace of growth in the coming quarters, as consumers take on more debt and cut back on saving to maintain their spending.
Without health care and related jobs, the United States would have nearly 400,000 fewer jobs than it did a year ago, according to Labor Department figures through January.
Sales had their biggest annual and monthly drop in the West, which wasn’t as affect by last month’s winter storm as the other regions of the country.
Notably, the Congressional Budget Office says higher tariffs partially offset some of those increases by raising federal revenue by $3 trillion, but that also comes with higher inflation from 2026 to 2029.
The report, issued by the Commerce Department on Tuesday, surprised economists who were looking for growth despite concerns about slowing job growth and other economic headwinds.
The company — which has five stores in Indiana — noted that it will conduct a court-supervised sales process, and if a sale can’t be executed, it will begin a wind-down of its U.S. and Canadian operations.
President Donald Trump said at a recent Cabinet meeting that the economy could hit growth “numbers that have never been hit before.”
Higher-income Americans and those with college degrees have ramped up their spending more quickly in the past three years than other consumers, according to new data.
Getting a handle on the disruption costs of winter weather disasters isn’t as easy as, say, calculating the value of buildings destroyed by hurricanes, floods and fires.
U.S. companies are under pressure to deliver strong growth in profits to justify the runs to records their stock prices have made.
“All U.S. automakers are doing great,” Trump said.
Signs that inflation is cooling could make it more likely that the Federal Reserve will reduce its key interest rate later this year, which could translate into lower borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.
The unprecedented move by the Trump administration marks an escalation of the president’s longstanding feud with the central bank’s chair, though Trump denied having any knowledge of an investigation.
