A simple reason explains why U.S. economic growth seemed to hit a wall in the final three months of the year.

Understand the income approach to GDP, where total expenditures equal the income from goods and services in an economy.

GDP grew at an annualized rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter, down from 4.4% in the third quarter. The report was originally ...

The US economy grew at a much slower pace in the final months of 2025 as the historic government shutdown weighed on economic activity, ending a year that saw the weakest growth since the pandemic.

Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the last quarter of the year, hit by the effects of the government shutdown.

The recent drop in GDP has some explanations, but even so, it’s not startlingly robust. Then again, the economic measure doesn’t mean most people are doing well.

The U.S. government's budget deficits are now projected to worsen throughout the next decade when compared with earlier forecasts this year, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Committee for ...