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Recession

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Trump: US faces economic 'period of transition'

  • Mar 11, 2025
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Recession risks rise, analysts say. Here's why.

  • Mar 10, 2025

Stock market plunge worries investors, but experts say don't panic

  • Aug 6, 2024

Disappointing July jobs report fuels recession worries

  • Aug 2, 2024

Inflation cooled in December, bolstering hopes US can avert recession

  • Jan 12, 2023

How millions of missing workers are making do without a job

  • Dec 12, 2022

Our Chicago: Taking a look at investing, real estate in 2023

  • Dec 4, 2022

Shopping records smashed amid looming recession? Expert explains

  • Dec 3, 2022

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Our Chicago: Taking a look at investing, real estate in 2023 Part 2

  • Dec 4, 2022
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Our Chicago: Taking a look at investing, real estate in 2023 Part 1

  • Dec 4, 2022
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University of Chicago applauds professor who won Nobel Prize

  • Oct 10, 2022
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2022 Nobel Prize winners include UChicago professor

  • Oct 10, 2022
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2022 Nobel Prize winners include UChicago professor

  • Oct 10, 2022
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Recession fears: US economy shrank 0.9% last quarter, its 2nd straight drop

  • Jul 28, 2022

Latest Stories

How China's zero-COVID policy threatens the US economy

Civil unrest in China over the weekend battered U.S. stocks.

  • Nov 29, 2022

Nobel Prize winners 2022: University of Chicago professor shares win for research on banks

A University of Chicago professor and former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, who put his academic expertise on the Great Depression to work reviving the American economy after the 2007-2008 financial crisis, won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences.

  • Oct 11, 2022
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FedEx warns of a global recession, cutting sales forecast by half a billion dollars

FedEx warned that a global recession could be coming, as demand for packages around the world tumbles.

  • Sep 18, 2022

'Don't Move to Texas' billboards invoke deadly Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde

The message is intended to be dark: "The Texas Miracle Died in Uvalde." And there seems to be something more behind it.

  • Aug 27, 2022

Are strip clubs a good predictor of a recession?

Strip club employees we talked to and dancers in the business say the expected post-pandemic recovery never materialized. Is the strip industry an early indicator of a coming recession?

  • Jun 30, 2022