Just four weeks after being sworn in as New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani delivered a stark warning about the city’s finances — one he said rivals the worst downturn in recent memory.

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Americans now have the least confidence in finding a new job since at least 2013, a period also known as the depths of the “jobless recovery” following the Great Recession. According to the latest ...

Stock market valuations appear stretched as economic warning signs intensify, with parallels to the Great Financial Crisis emerging in key data. Recent data shows worsening layoffs, declining Las ...

As states across America brace for economic turbulence, it’s tempting to look back to the Great Recession, when states also faced significant revenue shortfalls, for a playbook: cut budgets first, ...

Credit scores are down, delinquencies are up and Gen Z is suffering the most from the credit crunch. These are some of the main takeaways from the recently released FICO Score Credit Insights report, ...

Five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the triggering of the financial crisis, frugality is king when it comes to personal finances. Millions changed their financial habits after the ...

Consider the following four mistakes the middle class made during the Great Depression. Are you making the same ones?

The AI-driven capex boom by hyperscalers has delayed a recession despite aggressive Fed tightening and historic yield curve inversion. Tech capex growth is at three-decade highs, but free cash flow is ...

New York (CNN) — Credit scores are falling at the fastest pace since the Great Recession as Americans struggle to keep up with the high cost of living and the return of student debt payments. The ...