Just because something happened a bunch of times in the past doesn’t mean it must happen again in the future. This is what Fed Chair Jerome Powell communicated when asked about the “Sahm Rule” ...

Consumers don't care for negative surprises. That's why so many companies affix carefully worded warning labels on everyday goods, ranging from hot coffee cups to hand mixers. And for safety reasons, ...

Known economic indicators are being peered over more closely as recession risks whirl around the US economy. Sahm Consulting Founder Claudia Sahm joins Yahoo Finance Live as part of its Chartbook ...

When the monthly jobs report from the Labor Department was released in August at 8:30 a.m., it packed a punch. Something called the Sahm Rule had been triggered — it was like an economic fire alarm ...

(Bloomberg) -- For more than two years, the US Federal Reserve has been pushing interest rates up to slow inflation while hoping they don’t tip the economy into a recession. It’s a high-wire act that ...

The number of jobs added last month fell short of expectations and unemployment was on the rise, triggering a measure that has typically meant the U.S. is now in a recession. The economy has been ...

Even economist Claudia Sahm admits that her namesake recession indicator isn’t always a guarantee that the economy is headed toward a downturn. Sahm, an economist who previously worked at the Federal ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has raised concerns about potential pre-recessionary signals. He pointed to the Sahm Rule and its implications for the U.S. economy. What Happened: Krugman ...

Claudia Sahm spent 12 years as a research economist at the Federal Reserve. During her tenure, she came up with the Sahm Rule, a method of using changes in the unemployment rate to pinpoint whether or ...