When analysts want to know how Americans are feeling about the economy, they look to consumer surveys from The Conference Board and the University of Michigan. But they each paint a slightly different picture of people under age 35.

The National Retail Federation predicts that this holiday season, retailers will hire fewer than 365,000 workers — the lowest number in 15 years.

We look at why the unequal "K-shaped" pandemic recovery persists half a decade later, according to professor Peter Atwater.

The top third of stock owners are more optimistic. Everyone else is a lot more pessimestic.

October's 6.7% drop followed a spike in late summer before subsidies expired.

If the economy goes south, it could affect the ability of working people to continue making payments. And that could affect the banks’ bottom lines.

They aren’t just worried about upsetting their customers. Many face a number of other obstacles to raising prices, even as their costs have increased this year.

And especially the Nintendo Switch 2.

The pessimism varies inversely with income, with the biggest earners feeling the least gloomy.

Several factors blunting the impact of tariffs could make it harder to notice the import taxes’ impact on inflation, even though they will likely cause the economy to slow.