As the chart shows, it's nothing new for the super ... nearly a quarter of the American income pie: In 2007, before the recession, the top 1 percent brought in 23.5 percent of the money, about ...

One of the enduring puzzles of the current economic strength is how little impact the Fed’s rate hikes seemed to have caused — not generating the recession or crisis that every previous hiking ...

So ahead of that recession and crisis we saw two major themes ... Right now, neither of these dynamics is taking place. The following chart shows the US consumer continuing to spend at a solid ...

When the treasury bond yield curve inverts (and remains inverted for some time), the likelihood of the economy slipping into recession is high. A yield curve is a graph on which bonds are ...

There are several dry, specific metrics used by economists and Wall Street prognosticators to predict when a recession will happen. They center around economic activities, gross domestic ...