Despite dismal returns in the last three years, gold bug Peter Schiff stands behind his claim that the commodity could surge to $5,000.

U.S. consumer prices rose sharply in March as the economic recovery gained momentum, marking the start of an expected monthslong pickup in inflation pressures. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that the consumer-price index—which measures what consumers pay for everyday items including groceries, clothing, recreational activities and vehicles—jumped 2.6% in the year ended March, the highest since August 2018, and rose a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in March from February.

Ellen Coleman had never received so many offers on a house in her 15 years of selling real estate. She listed a fixer-upper in suburban Washington, DC for $275,000 on a Thursday. By Sunday evening, she had 88 offers.

The chaos that the coronavirus pandemic unleashed on America's economy turned out to be a major boon for Wall Street traders, according to new data from the New York state comptroller's office.

Debt collectors already have gained more than $520 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program. The bill would bar debt collectors that have been sanctioned from participating any more in the program.

Home-price growth in January accelerated to its highest annual rate since 2006, as the supply of homes for sale dropped to a new low. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index rose 11.2%.

Declining coronavirus cases, $1,400 stimulus checks and relaxed restrictions on business can only mean one thing: Jobs are coming back —and so is the U.S. economy.

The top sliver of high-income Americans dodge significantly more in income taxes than the Internal Revenue Service’s methods had previously assumed, according to forthcoming estimates from IRS researchers and academic economists. Overall, the paper estimates that the top 1% of households fail to report about 21% of their income, with 6 percentage points of that due to sophisticated strategies that random audits don’t detect.

The U.S. economy is recovering from the Covid-19 recession, but some economic “scarring” may take a long time to heal, said Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Thomas Barkin. Economic scarring refers to damage left behind by crises that will suppress growth prospects over the medium or long term.

The recent spike in bond yields finally has the attention of Federal Reserve policy makers. Gov. Lael Brainard said on Tuesday that “some of those moves last week and the speed of the moves caught my eye.” San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said the central bank could alter the maturity of its bond purchases — or even, as it has done before, sell shorter-term securities to buy longer-term government bonds in a so-called “twist.”

The central bank's new framework stands to drive a regime change that replaces a decade of weak expansion with stronger inflation and economic growth.

A crash program to increase manufacturing and distribution could save millions of lives and prevent economic disaster.

The change in emphasis for fiscal stimulus in the U.S. under President Joe Biden has effectively signaled "the end of Reaganomics," according to Embark Group CIO Peter Toogood.

There are better ways to follow the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for a guaranteed income.

Stimulus checks are starting to land in Americans' bank accounts across the country this weekend, just days after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. The third round of direct payments — which follows two previous sets of payments signed into law last year by former President Donald Trump — are the most substantial yet, although some of the people included in the last deals won't be eligible this time.

Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world's rubber trees. Can a solution be found before it's too late?

For decades, China's economy has grown much faster than America's. That trend is likely to be broken in 2021 as the US recovery from the pandemic gains momentum.

Enhanced unemployment benefits included in the $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief package signed on Thursday by President Biden could keep billions of dollars a week in stimulus flowing into the economy through the summer.

As 2021 begins, Bitcoin’s rising price has brought forth the usual commentary that has dogged the digital cash project for a decade – that it is little more than a “bubble” propelled by market manipulation and euphoria.

The UK can see light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel but the economy will never fully return to its pre-pandemic pattern, the governor of the Bank of England has said.