The Federal Reserve’s first deep look at the economy since President Trump imposed tariffs on the rest of the world showed the U.S. still expanding steadily — but “pervasive” uncertainty threatens to ...

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A massive jump in economic policy uncertainty, highlighted by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs and other policy back and forth, has characterized the first few months of his second ...

Critics of President Trump’s trade war, mass deportations, and other contested policies have repeatedly warned the measures risked provoking renewed inflation, economic contraction, and mass job ...

Expect uncertainty over U.S. economic policy to remain high as long as policy gyrations continue, says economist Steven Davis It had become something of a cliché to say that investors hate uncertainty ...

If we tallied up the most common words we’ve used on this show over the last handful of years, “uncertainty” would rank high on the list. We’ve used it to describe what’s happening in the housing ...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 01, 2025 in New York City. Senior Correspondent After two years of doing their own back-breaking yard work on ...

Major policy shifts this year have been adding to unknowns about the future and policy decisions, according to our World Uncertainty Index, which has doubled since January. Uncertainty has surged to ...

Let’s get this out of the way: We constantly live in uncertain times. Periods of tranquility are actually an aberration, if not an illusion. The relationship between marketing budgets and economic ...