Economy

Every dollar invested in trees generates roughly three dollars in benefits.

Energy and transportation are two areas where costs are rising for stores like Home Depot, Walmart, and Target, but raising prices could turn off an increasingly strapped consumer.

New research argues homeowners and businesses are spending far more on insurance than claims alone can explain.

What companies say about future pricing can tell us how much consumers can really afford.

In “The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money,” journalist and financial historian Brendan Greeley looks at why the dollar is the most powerful currency in the world and how that power has shaped the global financial system.

President Donald Trump has proposed pausing the country’s 18.4-cent gas tax.

The war in the Middle East is pushing up short-term government yields, on expectations that the Fed is increasingly likely to hike interest rates over the next two years.

And the war in the Middle East is to blame.

Gas taxes aren’t popular, but they go toward funding — and maintaining — roads and bridges across the country.

Household debt ticked up slightly in the first three months of this year, according to the New York Fed. We dig in.