Confessions first: I’m actually not predicting a recession in 2020. Everybody knows that it is impossible to forecast the ups and downs of the business cycle several years ahead. Even six to 12 months ...

Since the Kennedy administration, there have been eight recessions in the United States, as determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Five times, equities lost money after including the ...

Following the jobs report on Friday that showed job creation had deteriorated from “decent” to “weak,” yields dropped across the board, except for the 30-year yield, which ticked up. Yields are now ...

What is a recession? What are the key indicators of a recession? How do government and central banks respond to recessions? What are the causes of recessions? How can individuals and businesses ...

Recession indicators are everywhere, but will they all amount to a hill of beans? Americans are on the lookout for signs of a recession. The signs have been with us, depending on whom you ask, pretty ...

As the U.S. economy shrinks, fears and predictions of a recession continue to grow. New Commerce Department data shows that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at an annual rate of 0 ...

Financial experts have been predicting another recession for years, and about three-quarters of Americans (74%) think they’d be personally impacted if one occurred in 2020, according to a recent ...

A group of top economists arrived at a consensus 2020 economic and real estate forecast today at the National Association of Realtors(R) first-ever Real Estate Forecast Summit. The economists who ...

The risk that the U.S. economy will enter into a national recession at some time in the next twelve months now stands at 3.9%. The 3.9% probability works out to be nearly a 1-in-25 chance that a ...