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New England business leaders are awaiting the impact of pandemic-era unemployment benefits running out around Labor Day.The cutoff will affect more than 300,000 people in Massachusetts alone , the ...

The Federal Reserve's favorite measure of inflation rose to its highest level since 1991 in July, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration's Covid-related eviction moratorium. Read the ruling and dissent here: The-CNN-Wire & 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved. The post READ: Supreme Cour

The IRS has distributed almost 170 million payments. But hardship levels remain high as the Delta variant spreads.

Kamala Harris in Singapore delivered what was billed as a major foreign policy speech, but failed to mention Afghanistan.

Home is where the rent's affordable which, for many Americans, is an increasingly thin portion of the housing market.

With the Delta Variant wreaking more havoc on the United States each day and accounting for nearly all new COVID-19 cases, the effects of the pandemic on the economy could once again start to be felt as potential mitigation measures once again start to ta

More than 2.7 million people have signed a Change.org petition calling for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks until the pandemic is over.

Another batch of stimulus checks isn't a shoo-in, but a petition calling for recurring payments has collected over 2.5 million signatures. Here's what you should know.

Only $2.25 billion out of the $30 billion allocated for the Targeted EIDL Advances has made it into the hands of struggling business owners.

Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf has been forced to make hard decisions during the pandemic, offloading assets and deposits and stepping back from some products.

Maybe America's key inflation metric, the Consumer Price Index, should be redubbed the Car Price Index.

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday said it was finalizing a rule that would restrict mortgage servicers from foreclosing on homeowners behind on their payments due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With an uneven recovery continuing, many Americans are wondering if the Biden administration will be handing out a fourth stimulus check.

With surging prices and expected rate hikes, are we experiencing a short-term response to pandemic recovery -- or something more serious?

Lacy Hunt Warns Fed Has Reached Its Limit, Sees 'Inflation Today, Deflation Tomorrow' Earlier this month, Wealthion (a new YouTube channel featuring interviews with today's top experts in money & the markets) hosted its first online conference

Homeowners who have yet to refinance may miss out on the opportunity to save if they don't act soon.

The U.S. economy is still far from maximum employment and it is not time to change interest rates, New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said Thursday.

Americans want their stimulus cash. And starting today, it may be available to them. While a lot of people will gain access to their stimulus funds today, those who aren't eligible for direct deposit may need to sit tight a few more weeks. As was the case with the last two stimulus rounds, stimulus

President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the $1,400 direct payments to most Americans will begin going out