The "bottom line" is colloquially used as a metaphor to refer to "the essential or salient point" of a discussion. The term originally came from accounting. On an income statement, the top line is ...

Producers are already seeing rising costs. The Labor Department's producer price index, a measure of inflation on wholesale goods and producer costs, increased by nearly one percentage point from June ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will offer an economic outlook at the central bank’s annual symposium. The subtext of this year’s speech is more important.