Ylan Q. Mui

Stronger-than-expected data belie weakness in consumer spending and confidence.

Neil Irwin

Mario Draghi demonstrates that he won’t drag his feet if the trend toward deflation continues on the continent.

Sarah Kliff

“I asked him about the experience and got a more press-release-esque response than one typically expects from a family member.“

Sarah Kliff

President Obama is offering an apology to Americans who have received insurance cancellation notices--sort of.

Timothy B. Lee

Two Cornell researchers say Bitcoin is fundamentally broken. Here’s why they’re wrong.

Andrea Peterson

Amazon wants to get independent bookstores to stock their e-readers and tablets. That seems like a hard sell.

Neil Irwin

For investors in the Twitter IPO, the fact that the company is early in its process of monetizing the social network may be part of the appeal.

Brad Plumer

Unemployment benefits for 1.3 million out-of-work Americans will expire at the end of this year. And another 850,000 will lose jobless aid by March.

Ezra Klein

The author of “Days of Fire” reflects on the Bush administration.

Sarah Kliff

Tech workers are finding new capacity problems later in the application process--ones that, up until now, they didn’t know about.

Amrita Jayakumar

Analysts say the year-end shopping season is important to all retailers, but none more so than J.C. Penney.

Andrea Peterson

Army Cyber Command’s Star Trek-based “Information Dominance Center” is at Fort Belvoir -- a report says current facilities are in “poor condition.“

Lydia DePillis

Whole Foods has been cutting prices in response to competition. Which just means their profit margins might decline to match everybody else’s.

The Washington Post

Pop on first day of trading shows company left money on the table; Wall Street made out big.

Darla Cameron

The Internet marketing firm GlobalWebIndex surveyed thousands of Internet users in 32 countries from July to September 2013, asking whether they had contributed to Twitter in the past month. It estimates that 49 percent of Twitter users are active.

Sarah Kliff

This is at least the third Bloomberg public health policy to go national, following bans on smoking in public places and calorie count listings in chain restaurants.

Sarah Kliff

“It’s generally true that if you take the people who are a bad risk, and clean them out, those who are left get a good deal.“

Brad Plumer

A new paper looks at why it’s so difficult to figure out how progressive the Social Security program is.

Caitlin Dewey

IPOs don’t tell us much about a company’s success long-term.

Brian Fung

The CIA doesn’t appear to have broken any surveillance rules. But the deal certainly falls into a legal gray area.

Brian Fung

Twitter will need double-digit growth rates for a decade to meet investors’ expectations.

Hayley Tsukayama

Randi Zuckerberg -- yes, Mark’s sister -- talks online privacy and parenting in a digital age.

Neil Irwin

The euro zone is staring at deflation and stagnant growth. Mario Draghi and the ECB signal Thursday they’ll fight to stop it.

Associated Press