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O N JULY 3RD Congress gave Donald Trump the Independence Day present he wanted: with a vote of 218–214, House Republicans ...
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will increase the national debt by trillions. But that doesn't bother Arizona's self-professed ...
The U.S. tax and spending bill passed on July 3 is expected to add more than $3 trillion to the country’s deficit over the ...
The Senate bill includes $4.5 trillion of net tax cuts, $1.4 trillion of gross spending cuts, and $0.3 trillion of gross ...
Japan's upcoming upper house election could have important implications for fiscal health and credit ratings if it brings ...
Former Obama economic advisor Jason Furman just dropped a reality check that should have every investor paying attention to Washington’s fiscal math. In a pointed social media post, the Harvard ...
Trump’s ambitious fiscal push, along with a generational-scale tariff aggression, is putting the US’s credit status to the test again.
Brazilian central bank figures released on Monday show a slight rise in the public sector gross debt to 76.1 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in May versus 76.0 per cent in April. The modest ...
It illustrates the long-term damage Mr Trump is doing to the foundations of America’s economy. The bill’s main effect is to ...
Thanks to the policy decision to reply on "the wealth effect" for consumption, wealth inequality has soared: the net worth of the top 10% (34 million Americans) is 2X the net worth of the bottom 90% ...
The increasing trend of deficit and total debt is generating less gross domestic product (GDP) annually. It’s not a debate, ...
Yes, the economy may well enjoy a sugar-high the next couple of years, as borrowing stimulates near-term consumption. But a sugar-high won’t be sustained, it will do real damage, and often what comes ...