The U.S. Constitution has never required a balanced federal budget. The Founding Fathers avoided such a requirement in case ...

With the Senate up to bat next on the “one big, beautiful bill,” a monumental clash of economic viewpoints is dividing the ...

Market observers are raising fresh concerns regarding the fiscal health of the United States, with the country's deficit ...

Gaping budget deficits, on-again-off-again tariff wars and now, soaring bond yields. No wonder the markets are jumpy, our ...

The United States has long benefited from an enormous brain gain, with the most talented scientists and engineers around the world coming to U.S. research universities to teach and to learn. But with ...

Moody’s Investors Service became the final major bond rating agency to strip the United States of its coveted AAA credit rating. Citing the ballooning national debt, chronic budget def ...

The group uses a proprietary methodology that it says cuts through "politicization and accounting tricks" to give taxpayers a ...

Imagine being a family sitting on over $260,000 of debt that hasn’t socked away a dime since 2001, regularly spends 27 ...

First off, let’s drop the Republican claim that not extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts is a tax increase. Many of these tax cuts were purposely designed to expire and for a sneaky reason. Making them ...

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