Bill Gates has been right about a lot of things over the years — Microsoft, mosquito nets, the risk of pandemics. One thing he was not so right about: the idea that the internet would cut out the ...

U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending. The nation's gross domestic ...

To borrow a phrase made famous by Sesame Street, today’s economy is brought to you by the letter K and the number 175,000. Adopting letters as stand-in descriptors for economic conditions is a ...