The Upshot
Quantitative Easing Is Ending. Here’s What It Did, in Charts.
By NEIL IRWIN
The program has slowly helped the economy recover, but it has had many side effects, including making lots of people on Wall Street wealthy.
The central bank noted recent weakness in some gauges of inflation expectations, but it said the likelihood of persistently low inflation had diminished.
The program has slowly helped the economy recover, but it has had many side effects, including making lots of people on Wall Street wealthy.
A commissioner said that while the countries may not have to redraft their 2015 budgets, their filings would face tough scrutiny.
Three more months of data are in, and the state is still collecting much less income tax than it expected.
The Labor Department said that its Consumer Price Index edged up 0.1 percent last month as a rise in food and shelter costs offset a broad decline in energy prices.
Is the world economy suffering from “secular stagnation”? True or false, the idea alone could keep hurting stock prices.
Mutual funds and E.T.F.s generally fared well in the second quarter, despite rumblings from global trouble spots and the Federal Reserve’s intention of reducing economic stimulus.
In the five years since the United States began its slow climb out of the deepest recession since the 1930s, the job market has undergone a substantial makeover.
Five years since the end of the Great Recession, the private sector has finally regained the nine million jobs it lost. But not all industries recovered equally.
Making meaningful reform to the financial system could require Americans to reconsider the assumption that homeownership is good for the economy.
The Dodd-Frank overhaul aimed for banks to make loans with enough “risk-retention” to make them care about repayment, but the final rules appear to fall short of that.
As the damages wrought by increasingly disruptive weather patterns have climbed around the world, the insurance industry seems to have quietly engaged in what looks a lot like a retreat.
If global corporations can continue to evade taxation, the burden of government financing could fall disproportionately on ordinary workers.
For all the fears that curbing carbon emissions will put the brakes on economic growth, it might actually enhance it.
Milestones in the career of Janet L. Yellen, President Obama’s choice to be chief of the Federal Reserve, including video recollections from friends and colleagues.
See how your household income ranks in 344 zones across the United States.
The answer to the question depends on many factors. Compare the costs of buying and renting equivalent homes.