Justin Lahart

The White House placed substantial tariffs on foreign products in 2025, and still the goods trade deficit widened. Maybe that’s another thing to blame on artificial intelligence. A quick glance at the data shows that the effect of America’s AI buildout on trade has been big. The U.S. imported about

Major companies are laying off thousands, but overall unemployment hasn’t budged. Even people with stable employment and high salaries are spooked.

A 33-cent jump in the price of regular gasoline in a single week is hitting wallets fast, with the summer driving season still ahead.

Gasoline prices aren’t at historical highs, even by recent measures. In June 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the price of regular gasoline hit $5.07 a gallon. But the speed of the recent price jump is unprecedented. Friday’s average price was $1.41 higher than nine weeks earlier, right befo

Justin Lahart One reason it's so hard to interpret what's going on with the U.S. job market these days? It is doing some puzzling things.

Economists asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude which jobs were most exposed to AI. Many times, the models gave different answers.

Justin Lahart The numbers that researchers have been using to predict which jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence may be unreliable.

Justin Lahart is an economics reporter based in New York. Previously, Justin was a Heard on the Street columnist and wrote the Ahead of the Tape column.

Hotel housekeepers, commuter rail workers and nurses are among the unionized workers who have notched big wage gains.

Stocks are partying like it’s 1999. Americans haven’t felt this bad in 70 years.