Economy

It’s not all about the whole “safe haven” thing.

The greenback is down a little over 9% since January. With some uncertainty in the U.S. economy headed into the new year, the dollar may continue to weaken.

Consumers started 2025 feeling optimistic, but have ended on a low note.

Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, argues that policy makers have been relying less on economists for the last decade.

The data were collected in late November, during peak Black Friday discount season.

With the unemployment rate now at 4.6%, economists are predicting more of the same, at least for the first half of next year.

Bank deposits have been increasing for more than a year, according to the FDIC. While that could let banks make more loans, many banks are being cautious.

Based on this week’s jobs report, growth in average hourly earnings slowed to 3.5%, while price inflation is heating up.

Now that the government has stopped minting pennies, retailers and restaurants that tend to do a lot of cash business want the federal government to come up with a standard for rounding.

Many immigrant families are in lockdown or not working due to ICE enforcement, causing economic pressure that mirrors the pandemic.