Learn More » This recession-forecasting tool was last wrong in 1966 At any given moment, there's bound to be one or more ...

President Donald Trump and his top economic official’s refusals to rule out a recession have rattled Wall Street and consumers, while some economists warn the Trump administration may tip the U.S.

An economic depression is a more severe, long-lasting recession that extends beyond the confines of a single country's border and into the economies of other nations. Here's how to protect your ...

The Great Recession from 2007-09 saw GDP fall 4.3%, the biggest drop since the Great Depression. Deregulation in the 2000s and excessive risk by banks were major causes of the financial crisis.

The U.S. stiock market has dropped considerably over the last week amid concerns over the impacts of President Donald Trump's ...

As shown in the chart below, the shaded gray areas ... triggering a severe recession (or more realistically, a depression), the U.S. Federal Reserve and government will pull out all the stops ...

Prior to the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the terms recession and depression could have been used interchangeably. Since then, economists have used the term recession to describe milder ...

For example, in 2023 we witnessed the first sizable decline in U.S. M2 money supply since the Great Depression ... areas denote U.S. recession. As you'll note from the chart, one of the steepest ...