Less than a year after The Economist labeled the U.S. economy the 'envy of the world,' concerns are arising from disappointingjobs reports, slowing GDP growth, and rising prices. In this EconoFact Ch

This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of an Ask Me Anything Webinar held on July 17th, 2025, with Michael Strain,Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Insti

United States colleges and universities currently enrol about 900,000 international students, representing 5% of all students although the percentage of foreign students varies widely across institu

The U.S. dollar is the most widely used currency in global commerce. Many commodities are priced in dollars. Much of world trade in goods and services, as well as in financial instruments, is denomina

Manufacturing employment has been declining as a share of total employment in the U.S. What's driving this decline? Does the reduction in manufacturing employment represent a natural progression as ec

Erica Groshen, former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses the acronymAORTAto characterize good data;Accurate,Objective,Relevant,Trustworthy, andAccessible. This is ap

Most of the United States population growth is now due to immigration. Among these is an estimated 11 to 12 million undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants have been deported both through en

Reporting on economics often focuses on the 24-hour news cycle and the ups and downs of financial markets. But the stock market is not the economy, and Heather Long, in her career as an economic journ

Stablecoins -- crypto-tokens whose value is pegged to fiat currencies -- aim to blend the stability of traditional government-issued money with the speed, decentralized nature, and reach of cryptocurr

This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of the EconoFact Ask Me Anything Webinar held on May 27th with Bill Gale, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Co-Director of the Urb