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U.S. economic growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of 2025 as businesses rushed to stockpile goods ahead of President Trump’s sweeping tariff policies. The nation’s gross domestic product — the total value of products and services — shrank at a 0.3% annual rate, down from growth of 2.4% in the final three months of […]
The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business. First-quarter growth was slowed by a surge in imports as companies in the United States tried to bring in foreign goods before Trump imposed massive tariffs. The January-March […]
The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter, but the underlying data show trends under the hood that should dampen recession fears. “Real GDP slipped in the first quarter, and while a decline during an expansion is unusual, it’s not unheard of and the economy isn’t in a recession, wrote Ryan Sweet, chief U.S. economist […]
The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2025, fueling recession fears at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term in office as he wages a potentially costly trade war. Gross domestic product, a sum of all the goods and services produced from January through March, fell at a 0.3% annualized pace, […]
In 2022 the world’s population will pass 8 billion. It has increased by a third in just two decades. By 2050, there will be about 9.5 billion of us on the planet, according to respected demographers. This makes recent comments by Elon Musk baffling. According to him, “the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate” […]
Part of the wreckage is seen as rescue boats search the waters of the Potomac River after a plane on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river outside Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP The flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered from the passenger jet that crashed […]
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LEA SKENE ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A midair collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said Thursday, as they scrutinized the actions of the military pilot in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a […]
US economy grew at 2.3% rate in fourth quarter Financial Times Source link
The US economy grew at a slower-than-expected pace in the fourth quarter. The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimate of fourth quarter US gross domestic product (GDP
The US economy grew at a slightly less rapid pace than economists had expected in the third quarter. The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimate of third quarter US gross domestic product (GDP