GDP grew at a healthy 2.8% pace. Current spending levels may provide a welcome “not too hot, not too cold” scenario for the Federal Reserve.

Home prices are up more than 4% year over year, but the rate of increase is slowing as inventory grows and buyers hope for better deals.

It doesn’t necessarily feel like that to everyone living here. This is why.

James Robinson and his colleagues’ work explores why some countries are rich and others are poor, and why those income gaps persist.

The shift in the private sector from pensions to 401(k)s has been going on for decades, but now there’s more pushback from workers.

The IRS based the changes on an inflation rate of 2.8%.

Even though interest rates have been falling, people are more reluctant to take on new debt.

Inflation in the European Union has cooled sharply, but the economy could still use a boost.

The inventory-to-sales ratio provides a glimpse at how fast inventories are turning over. If a sector’s ratio is elevated, that can be a sign that it will slow down — or cut prices — in the near future.

Johnson’s work focuses on how institutions shape economies.