Workers are returning, just not as fast as employers want to hire them. After lagging earlier in the recovery, the labor force has rebounded strongly in recent months. But job openings are rising even faster.
Rapid Inflation, Lower Employment: How the U.S. Pandemic Response Measures Up The United States spent more on its policy response than other advanced economies. Now economists are revisiting how that worked.
To Stop Inflation, Will We Need to Engineer a Recession? Raising interest rates will pour cold water on an economy many believe is overheated — but at the risk of triggering a downturn.
Paul Krugman on Why the Economy Is Doing Better Than We Think The economist and Times Opinion columnist discusses inflation, unemployment and the supply chain crisis.
‘La French Tech’ Arrives Under Macron, but Proves No Panacea The president has brought innovation, jobs and growth. Still, resentments fester on the eve of the presidential election.