Central bankers are tapping nontraditional data sources for a more complete picture of the economy In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending ...

Research in the journal Electronic Government discusses the growing need for protecting one's personal financial data as the online world faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The ...

After six weeks of a government shutdown, federal economic data will once again begin flowing this week. On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the monthly jobs report for September ...

No matter how much you may trust AI for its advice and research, experts say there’s one thing you should never share with a chatbot: your financial data. In a recent Money project, our staff graded ...

Lying to your lenders is a bad enough idea when you’re an individual. It’s even worse when you’re a country. That’s the specter critics of President Donald Trump have raised after he fired the head of ...

A view of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 10, 2025. (Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images) Top Senate Democrats are waging a last-ditch ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to drive more value with data and analytics. When President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...

WASHINGTON — The government shutdown that began Wednesday will deprive policymakers and investors of economic data vital to their decision-making at a time of unusual uncertainty about the direction ...

NEW YORK, August 8 (Reuters) - Inadvertent fumbles in the presentation of financial data have become endemic across the media space, which can confuse readers at a time when statistical literacy is ...

Russell Vought, the acting head of the CFPB, has shifted course on the open banking rule. Instead of killing it, he wants to rewrite it. A federal judge on Tuesday granted a last minute motion by the ...

Recent economic data has been very solid. Consumers have shown continued resiliency, boosting retail sales up 0.6% for the month of June. The labor market remains solid. And while the stock market isn ...