The Bursting Chinese Housing Bubble Compounds Beijing’s Economic Woes
China’s deflating property bubble is imperiling the world’s second-largest economy with effects that could ripple for years. Home prices are dropping in many cities after...
Social Security Benefits Are Heading for the Biggest Increase in 40 Years
Social Security recipients are on track to receive the highest cost-of-living increase in more than four decades next year. Social Security checks get an inflation...
Gold ends at six-week high, topping $1,812 as investors await inflation report
Gold futures closed at their highest level in six weeks on Tuesday, as stocks and the dollar slumped ahead of Wednesday’s U.S. consumer-price index update...
Home Sellers Cut Prices as Housing Market Cools
Listen to article (1 minute) There are a lot of unhappy people in the housing market right now. Among the most miserable are sellers realizing...
Opinion: The Fed’s inflation promises are simply not credible
With inflation running high for the last 14 months, we can sadly conclude it’s entrenched, will be difficult to conquer and is hardly the province of...
‘Savings are gonna run out’: Already battered by high inflation, Fed’s rate hike will hit lower-income and rural Americans hard
The Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark rate by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday in an effort to temper the rising costs of consumer goods and...
Recession or Not, the Recovery Has Ended
Whether a recession is eventually declared, the message from the latest economic data is just as sobering: The recovery is, effectively, over. To be sure,...
The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed
By Dion Rabouin | Photographs by Dina Litovsky for The Wall Street Journal July 25, 2022 5:30 am ET Mark Yu had a profitable pandemic....
Strong Dollar Extends Gains With No End to Rally in Sight
Fears of a global recession and deepening woes in Europe are pushing the dollar higher, and few on Wall Street expect to see a change...
When will inflation peak? Consumers and economists see light at the end of the tunnel (it’s a long tunnel)
Consumers think inflation still has to boil over before it cools, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest read on people’s economic...