Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 since COVID-19 throttled the economy ...

Still, some warnings from financial writers have been ominous: Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, said the firing was ...

Inflation, as measured by the producer price index, shot up to 3.3% for the year ending in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday — the largest 12 month increase since February. On a ...