Much of the stimulus spending has given a priority to gross domestic product, but government spending alone does little good if it isn’t creating jobs.

The deficit is alarming, but cutting spending on relief and recovery efforts now would worsen the economic slowdown and the suffering of millions of Americans.

How my Republican Party destroyed the American economy.

Economic growth cooled in the spring as consumers lagged, the Commerce Department said Friday, reinforcing views that unem ployment could stay high for years. GDP rose at an annualized 2.4% in Q2, just under views. Q1's gain was revised up to 3.7%. The recession was even worse than previ ously estimated, revisions showed. "This was the inevitable slowdown that we were poised to see in the economy,...

With growth at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the second quarter and the stimulus fading, an analyst says the rest of the year will feel like a recession.

So long as American corporations keep squeezing their work forces, there can be no real economic recovery.

Investors were particularly fretful about the G.D.P. report because it comes at the end of a run of worse than expected economic data and a warning from the Fed.

The president emphasized that G.M. and Chrysler had returned to profitability and added jobs since the government came to their rescue over a year ago.

A Fed member warned that the agency’s current policies put the United States economy at risk of “Japanese-style� deflation.

Now that we’re in the decade of the nasty crawl, what political approach is best for getting us out of it?

Economists are tempering their outlook ahead of a report on Friday on the nation’s output in the second quarter.

The unemployment filings fell slightly more than expected last week, offering some hope for the anemic labor market recovery.

A leak of classified military reports does not change the fact that voters remain more concerned about the economy and jobs.

The effectiveness of the Wall Street reform act will rely heavily on execution, the I.M.F. said.

Two reports that showed the recovery was slowing sent shares moderately lower on Wednesday.

The pace of economic activity has slowed or held steady in parts of the country, the Fed report said.

New-home sales surged nearly 24% in June from a record low, the Commerce Department said Monday, offering hope that housing has found some sort of floor. Sales jumped 23.6% to an annual rate of 330,000, beating analyst views for 310,000. Sales were still 16.7% below year-earlier levels. Also, May sales were revised down sharply from 300,000 to 267,000. That's the lowest since records began in 1963...