These were the updates from US President Donald Trump's address to the nation on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

President Donald Trump delivered a televised speech Wednesday evening focused heavily on the economy, an effort to reverse declining public opinion numbers and the view even among some supporters that ...

President Trump will address the nation tonight with a very important speech. I sincerely hope he looks forward more than backward. What do I mean by that? He has a fabulous list of achievements in ...

Fewer than a quarter of Americans (23%) currently rate the country’s economic conditions as excellent or good, while 36% say they are poor and about four-in-ten (41%) view conditions as “only fair.” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. Economic policy uncertainty has surged since President Donald ...

Shrugging off higher interest rates, America's consumers spent enough to help drive the economy to a brisk 5.2% annual pace from July through September, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported ...

This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.