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US Economy Was Already Sputtering Before Trade Pain Kicked In
After cruising along comfortably for most of last year, the world’s largest economy lost altitude at the start of 2025 as ...
Americans Are Downbeat on the Economy. They Keep Spending Anyway.
People are still buying things at a steady clip, keeping the economy humming—for now.
What a plunge in shipping traffic from China says about tariffs, stocks and the economy
Fears of pandemic-era shortages at American stores have made a big comeback as shipping-container traffic between China and ...
Charting the Global Economy: US Dollar Slide Evocative of Nixon
The dollar is on pace for its worst performance during the first 100 days of a US presidency since Richard Nixon was in the ...
America’s Leather Economy Has Gone Global, and Now It Can’t Escape the Trade War
Before they become couches, bags and shoes, U.S. cattle hides often travel through factories on multiple continents. American ...
Consumers are feeling a little better about the economy, but concerns are still rampant
Despite the improvement, it is still the weakest sentiment reading in 32 months. Sentiment has fallen for four straight ...
Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff says Trump’s ‘chaos and uncertainty’ hurts the economy
Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia says President Donald Trump’s unsettled economic policy is the biggest problem facing ...
The economy, housing, pipelines: Not all claims in the federal election campaign were true
Over the course of the federal election campaign, CBC's Election Fact Check Unit looked into dozens of statements made by the ...