Watch more: TechReg Talks With Progressive Policy Institute’s Dr. Michael Mandel Governments are reexamining technology as industrial policy confronts an era defined by artificial intelligence and uneven economic gains. Dr. Michael Mandel, chief economist and vice president at the Progressive Policy Institute, told Competition Policy...
Rising stock prices helped drive an increase in Americans’ net worth in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Federal Reserve said Thursday (March 19). The net worth of households and nonprofit organizations increased by $2.2 trillion during the quarter and reached $181.4 trillion as of...
Jobless claims decreased last week, surprising economists and signaling a labor market that remains steady despite the pressures caused by rising oil and gas prices. The number of initial claims for unemployment insurance declined by 8,000 during the week ended Saturday (March 14), the Department of...
The latest producer price data suggest that inflation is no longer being driven primarily by what businesses pay for goods, but by what those enterprises decide to charge as those goods move through the system. February’s Producer Price Index (PPI) came in above expectations, rising...
Firms’ year-ahead inflation expectations increased by 0.2 percentage points to 2.1% in March, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s March Business Inflation Expectations (BIE) Survey. That figure is up from the 1.9% recorded in the February BIE Survey but down from the 2.5%...
The share of consumers who applied for credit products reached the highest level in over three years in February, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The application rate for any credit product over the 12 months ending in February reached 44.4%, up...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Monday (March 16) that central banks should not react too quickly to the spike in global energy prices caused by the conflict with Iran, because the increase could be temporary, Reuters reported Monday. “If it’s a supply shock,...
Home builder sentiment inched up in March after one metric of mortgage rates dipped to its lowest level since August 2022, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said Monday (March 16). The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) rose by one point to 38...
There was little change in job openings in January, as they increased by 396,000, rebounding from the five-year low recorded in December and reaching 6.9 million, according to Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data published Friday (March 13) by the Bureau of Labor...