Chris Giles talks to Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and voter on the central bank’s ...

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a voter on the Fed’s interest rate-setting committee, ...

September’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country.

Rate cuts by the Fed can gradually lower borrowing costs for things like mortgages, auto loans, and business loans.

Former President Richard Nixon imposed wage and price controls in 1971 to stabilize a slowing economy. The move helped him ...

Economists are in the dark due to the government shutdown, but private data has offered some clues. It’s not great news.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee says he's "a little uneasy" with big interest rate cuts at the moment, ahead of his vote during the Fed's next meeting at the end of the month ...

It’s never been a more important time to understand the labor market. The Fed is entering a rate cutting cycle, the ...

Stock index futures inched higher on Friday, a day after Wall Street paused its rally as concerns rose about the length of the U.S. government shutdown.

The Federal Reserve, in the middle of a highly anticipated series of interest rate cuts, is without its usual roadmap because ...

The government shutdown continues. Here’s what to watch for Friday: Economic data: Preliminary consumer-sentiment data for October from the University of Michigan, due at 10 a.m. ET. Economists expect ...