Ben Casselman

Employers added 162,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent. But wage growth is not keeping up with rising inflation.

The Personal Consumption Expenditure index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation tracker, held steady in July.

After roughly two decades of ultralow interest rates, a period of rapid readjustment is ahead for the United States, the world’s largest economy and most important financial system.

When prices spiked in 2021-22, wages failed to keep up for many workers, new research shows. Now the pattern is repeating.

Investment in artificial intelligence and related companies is lifting the stock market and spending across the economy.

Lower gas prices have been a relief for households struggling with higher living costs. But now they are creeping higher again.

The Consumer Price Index fell to a 3.5 percent annual increase in June, and prices marked their biggest drop from a month earlier since 2020.

Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.

Employers added fewer jobs in June than a month earlier but the unemployment rate ticked down, a decent showing for the U.S. economy.

Some data suggest artificial intelligence is already causing job losses. Other sources show the opposite. Why is it so hard to figure out what’s going on?