Our Methodology

How we find out why things happened—and how we keep our reporting clear, cited, and trustworthy.

How we report

  • 1
    Primary sources first

    We go to the original release, filing, or dataset instead of relying on press summaries or other outlets. Every major claim is linked to a source you can check.

  • 2
    Transparent methods

    When we analyze data or run numbers, we explain what we did so you can judge the approach. No black boxes.

  • 3
    Ongoing updates

    Stories are updated when new data or events warrant it. We note material changes at the top of the article and fix errors as soon as we find them.

  • 4
    No editorial agenda

    We don’t advocate for a side. Our job is to present the facts and the evidence so you can make up your own mind.

Categories we cover

We organize our work around five areas: Labor (people and work), Consumer (household money behavior), Corporate (business financials), Markets (trading and capital flows), and Risk (disruptive events and operational shocks). Each piece is tagged so you can follow what matters to you.