Justin Lahart is a Reporter at various prominent outlets including Yahoo Finance and The Wall Street Journal. He covers a diverse range of topics within business and economics, focusing on labor markets, remote work, economic policy, and financial markets. Justin's work has been featured in notable publications such as Yahoo News, South Florida Reporter, and TheStreet.
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The annual inflation rate remained elevated last month, with Americans still paying high prices for gasoline.
By: Justin Lahart, Richard Rubin
The Treasury secretary makes the argument that strong economic expansion is the antidote to climbing out of the deep debt hole.
By: Justin Lahart, Richard Rubin
The U.S. debt picture looks bleak. Is there a way out of the coming crunch? One path requires tough trade-offs lawmakers have ducked for decades: higher taxes and lower spending.
By: Justin Lahart, David Uberti, Aaron Zitner
The price of eating out, filling a gas tank and buying a house keeps rising. The Fed raised rates to try to tamp down inflation, but that will make borrowing more expensive too.
By: Aaron Zitner, David Uberti, Justin Lahart
Mortgage rates close to 7%. Gas prices near their highest levels since 2022. A Federal Reserve interest-rate hike for the first time in three years.
By: Justin Lahart, Konrad Putzier
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads, and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
By: Justin Lahart, Konrad Putzier
The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure
By: Rachel Louise Ensign, Justin Lahart
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
By: Justin Lahart, Rachel Louise Ensign
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation's total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
By: Justin Lahart
The Labor Department’s payroll count has been cutting a jagged path. Some months, like September when it showed the economy added 29,000 jobs, it looks meh. Others, like in August, when it initially showed a gain of 162
