Even if the real estate market in the world's second-biggest economy were to collapse, the repercussions may not be bad as you think.

Interest rates are going to stay low for a while longer. But the Federal Reserve is thinking about what comes next.

There are plenty of financial and lifestyle reasons to not have a child, but there are also costs to delaying or forgoing, notes Money reporter and first-time dad Taylor Tepper.

It's not tax rates, or too much regulation, or college kids majoring in art history instead of computer science. This is a global slowdown.

The U.S. economy added only 142,000 jobs in August, the slowest employment growth in 8 months.

The recession is gradually ending, but we're about to enter a world where fewer and fewer people work.