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.
Fed Announces End to Bond-Buying, Citing Job Gains
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
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Ben Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chairman who engineered the quantitative easing program, with Janet L. Yellen, the current Fed chief, in 2013.
The central bank noted recent weakness in some gauges of inflation expectations, but it said the likelihood of persistently low inflation had diminished.
October 27, 2014
What to Look for in Judging the Affordable Care Act
By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Getting answers on how to grade the health act will take time, but here are the right questions.
October 27, 2014
A $90 Million Condo Flip Shows What’s Wrong With Financial Capitalism
By NEIL IRWIN
The purchase of one of the most costly apartments in New York for speculative purposes is a good example of a deal that does nothing for the economy.
October 24, 2014
Why China Won’t Keep Growing Fast Forever
By NEIL IRWIN
Can China continue its torrid pace of economic growth for decades to come? The long arc of history suggests not, according to a paper by Harvard’s Lant Pritchett and Lawrence Summers.
October 24, 2014
Americans Don’t Live in Information Cocoons
By BRENDAN NYHAN
A study was widely read as saying that liberals and conservatives get their news mainly from like-minded sources, but the truth is more complicated.
E.U. Budget Clearance for France and Italy Comes With an Asterisk
By JAMES KANTER
A commissioner said that while the countries may not have to redraft their 2015 budgets, their filings would face tough scrutiny.
The Upshot
Kansas Faces Additional Revenue Shortfalls After Tax Cuts
By JOSH BARRO
Three more months of data are in, and the state is still collecting much less income tax than it expected.
U.S. Consumer Prices Barely Rise as Inflation Remains Muted
By REUTERS
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.
The Upshot
When a Stock Market Theory Is Contagious
By ROBERT J. SHILLER
Is the world economy suffering from “secular stagnation”? True or false, the idea alone could keep hurting stock prices.
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Falling Factory Orders End 3rd Quarter on a Weak Note
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Tight Credit and High Prices Slow Home-Buying Plans
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The Week Ahead: Social Media Reports, a Fed Policy Meeting and Third-Quarter G.D.P.
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It's the Economy: Can You Uber a Burger?
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Off the Charts: In Eurozone, Deflation; in U.S., Mild Inflation
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About 25 Europe Banks Are Said to Have Failed Tests
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New-Home Sales Staying Sluggish
Special Section
Mutual Funds Report: Second Quarter
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.
The Nation’s Economy, This Side of the Recession
By ALICIA PARLAPIANO, SHAILA DEWAN and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
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.
The Upshot
How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts
By ALICIA PARLAPIANO and JEREMY ASHKENAS
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.
Columnists
Economic Scene
More Renters, Less Risk for Wall St.
By EDUARDO PORTER
Making meaningful reform to the financial system could require Americans to reconsider the assumption that homeownership is good for the economy.
High & Low Finance
Banks Again Avoid Having Any Skin in the Game
By FLOYD NORRIS
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.
Economic Scene
A Retreat From Weather Disasters
By EDUARDO PORTER
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.
Economic Scene
Tax Tactics Threaten Public Funds
By EDUARDO PORTER
If global corporations can continue to evade taxation, the burden of government financing could fall disproportionately on ordinary workers.
Economic Scene
The Benefits of Easing Climate Change
By EDUARDO PORTER
For all the fears that curbing carbon emissions will put the brakes on economic growth, it might actually enhance it.
Yellen’s Path to the Pinnacle
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.
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