The Heritage Foundation's 2026 Index of Economic Freedom finds nations embracing free markets, like Singapore and Ireland, ...

The overall economy has proved resilient in recent years, even as many households have struggled. The war with Iran is ...

The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a second estimate released on Friday by ...

I don’t expect it to change because of the latest disappointing numbers on jobs, fluctuations in the gross domestic product ...

The US economy, hobbled by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, advanced at an unexpectedly sluggish 0.7% annual rate from ...

The US economy was on shaky footing even before President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, a ...

For many people, the economy is a simple equation: paychecks minus expenses. When it feels like our incomes are growing faster than prices, the economy is in good shape. When they’re not, it’s lousy.

Hello. I'm Louie. I run the USA TODAY Opinion team, and I need your help. You see, we're trying to figure out what to write about the economy. Our columnists have written a few things, and we've had ...

Recession worries are spreading, but analysts don’t expect a dire economic slowdown in 2025 and are looking for growth to reaccelerate next year. Heightened risk factors like a rapidly cooling labor ...

We asked you, our readers, how we needed to change the way we write about the economy and what we as opinion writers – and the rest of the news media – were getting wrong. You weren't shy about ...

For the greater part of the last decade, the United States and China have been locked in a cold war, fought as fiercely over economic and technology advantages as over military advantages. In ...