Sharma said that in a market-driven system, multiple actors can coexist and compete. Governments can build public ...

I could not be more pleased with how well the stock market has performed over the past three months. Considering I have minimal exposure to the technology sector, the recent improvement in breadth has ...

It is becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. economy only has two key drivers right now. The first is massive fiscal deficit spending that has run between six and seven percent of GDP in recent ...

Donald Trump’s election provides a useful occasion to examine the difference between what rich people want and what constitutes a thriving economy. Of course, these are all predictions; we can’t know ...

From jobs to housing to grocery prices, the U.S. economy has been weakening for months. But the stock market is telling a different story, thanks to a handful of companies called the Magnificent 7: ...

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"The mindset of the market is to embrace risk," one expert said. Weak jobs data came out hours before President Donald Trump fired the head of labor statistics. A report on gross domestic product ...

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A big hit to portfolios would be felt acutely by higher-income Americans, whose spending has recently been the biggest driver of the economy. By Ben Casselman This time, maybe the stock market is the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The stock market keeps breaking records, but angst about the economy keeps befuddling ...