Economy

The jobless rate fell in part because of the vagaries the Labor Department uses to calculate the headline rate — there was an increase of 198,000 in those considered not in the labor force, while […]

White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Friday’s shockingly weak jobs report is “very fluky,” and he would advise not paying “any attention to it.” The reported gain of 20,000 jobs in February was the […]

Americans’ net worth fell at the highest level since the financial crisis in the fourth quarter of 2018 as sliding stock market prices ate into the household balance sheet. Net worth dropped to $104.3 trillion […]