Better late than never: The delayed September jobs report will be out next week The Bureau of Labor Statistics says it will report on September's job gains and unemployment rate next week. That's the first of many overdue economic reports held up by the government shutdown. Scott Horsley
AI stocks fall They've been the darling of the stock market, delivering gigantic gains over the last 18 months, but some of the superstars like Palantir, Nvidia, Meta, Tesla and Microsoft have all been falling.
Economic promises helped Trump get elected. Now he has an affordability problem Americans are feeling the strain of high prices, even as President Trump tries to tout "record highs" in the stock market. Tamara Keith
Tallying up the cost of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history Economists are starting to put a price tag on the six-week government shutdown. But some of their calculations will be difficult to make because the shutdown temporarily limited government data. Leila Fadel
The government can now get back to measuring the economy with shutdown over Now that the government shutdown is over, federal number crunchers are back at work. It could take time, though, to make up for the jobs reports and inflation scorecards we missed in the last 6 weeks. Scott Horsley
Is an AI bubble brewing? Shiller PE Ratio nears levels seen before dot-com crash The economic indicator known as the Shiller PE Ratio is almost as high as it was in November 1999, just before the dot-com bubble burst. Is another bubble forming with AI? Paddy Hirsch
3 questions about Trump's 50-year mortgage plan Experts in the mortgage industry are skeptical. Buyers would pay less each month, but would end up paying more over time. Here's what to know about the proposed 50-year mortgages. Bill Chappell
Maine cultivates next generation of loggers Maine's forest products industry is worth more than $8 billion. But its logging workforce is dwindling.
Trump floats tariff 'dividends' even while plan shows major flaws President Trump says the government will distribute checks to Americans from tariff revenue. Here's what that could mean. Danielle Kurtzleben
What the push for affordability reveals about wealth inequality Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns that unchecked inequality is pushing America toward economic and political peril. Ahmad Damen