"It's hard to imagine the bar for dysfunctional government getting any lower than it is right now," said the Committee for a ...

As the debate over the federal deficit intensifies, Yardeni Research President Ed Yardeni has offered his analysis of President Donald Trump’s fiscal policy approach. The financial expert shared his ...

The U.S. government recorded a $1.8 trillion budget deficit for fiscal 2025, just $8 billion smaller than the previous year, the Congressional Budget Office said. Revenue rose 6% while spending ...

Conservative deficit hawks in Congress are on an island as House Republicans barrel ahead this week with the “big, beautiful bill” to advance President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda that would saddle ...

The federal government's budget deficit reached $2 trillion for the current fiscal year as the deficit has widened by nearly $100 billion from last year. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. budget deficit shrank by $41 billion to $1.775 trillion in the 2025 fiscal year as an increase in revenue from President Donald Trump's tariffs and cuts to education ...

The twin deficits hypothesis has long been central to macroeconomic debates, positing that a government’s chronic fiscal deficit may generate or exacerbate a current account deficit. This ...

WARSAW/LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Poland's path to narrowing its fiscal deficit, maintaining its credit ratings and keeping investors on board looks more difficult following conservative nationalist ...

There are significant fears over U.S. deficits and debt. But there is little evidence that this will lead to higher interest rates. Rather, we expect a slowdown in long-term GDP growth and potentially ...

BOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Colombia's government has authorized the use of an "escape clause" to temporarily suspend compliance with its fiscal rule, a government source told Reuters on Tuesday, amid ...

India's biggest tax overhaul since 2017 is colliding with the steepest US tariffs on any nation. That's set to shape the country's GDP growth, its inflation trajectory and fiscal deficit for years to ...