This election season, we’re looking at political polarization: specifically, the role companies play in intensifying or ...

Partly to blame: high prices, and high interest rates on auto loans. According to data this week from Edmunds, average loan ...

Dockworkers from East and Gulf Coast ports enter the second day of a strike, with tensions centered around wages and ...

From the BBC World Service: The San José is being hailed as the most valuable shipwreck in the world — it's a Spanish galleon ...

Automation at U.S. ports on the East and Gulf Coasts tends to lag behind that at West Coast, Asian and European ports.

When a retailer buys a product from a manufacturer as is and slaps its own label and price tag on it, the practice is called ...

Drivers are seeking alternate income sources as their regular work grinds to a halt. Some are doing maintenance on their ...

Tyler Graybeal, owner of Sweetish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, says keeping up with demand was difficult at first.

Fewer people quit last month, which signals a cooling jobs market. But does it really, or does that figure mean something ...

Over the last two years, data center construction in the U.S. has increased more than seven-fold, according to a report by ...

The strike is impacting shipments of things like fresh food, cars and machinery. Our weekly “Econ Extra Credit” newsletter is ...

Today: What's behind the longshoremen's strike and how truckers will take a hit. Also: Swedish candy goes viral.