Fears of a recession have been filling the news lately, affecting the markets and upsetting predictions for the 2020 election. No incumbent president wants to preside over a recession, and few take ...

Economic downturns aren't just temporary blips in GDP figures—they leave profound, lasting impacts on individuals who experience them during critical life stages. This analysis from Decode Econ ...

In 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, I was 17 years old. I wrote an article for my high-school newspaper detailing how my small-time babysitting business lost dozens of customers. But even ...

As we move through 2024, the economy is doing OK. Certainly, if one “tortures” the data enough, one can find issues with the economy. At some point, those predicting a recession will be right, just as ...

There's a reason governments spend so many taxpayer dollars digging their economies out of recessions. Families lose their homes. Children go malnourished. New grads spend years struggling to get ...

Recessions bring mostly bad news—escalating unemployment, shrinking wages, falling markets, rising poverty, and surging bankruptcies. But they might be better for your health than economic growth, ...

Households intensify their search for high-interest savings accounts when the economy turns sour, inadvertently making recessions more severe, according to new research from the University of Surrey.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. So we're told the Great Recession is over. Does it feel ...

The economic cycles we’ve seen throughout history may be a thing of the past. That means no more deep recessions and no dramatic recoveries; the economy will almost always exist somewhere in between.

Few people would root for a recession, for obvious reasons. But when one happens, there may be at least one benefit, finds research from Chicago Booth’s Matthew Notowidigdo and his coauthors: life ...

Stock market expert Jon Erlichman recently shared a review of stock returns during the last six U.S. recessions, highlighting those that have performed well in difficult times. In a video post and ...

As the U.S. economy shrinks, fears and predictions of a recession continue to grow. New Commerce Department data shows that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at an annual rate of 0 ...