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Here are seven key budget charts that shed light on the nation ... Also among the 20 biggest forecast expense programs are servicing federal debt ($28 billion), funding for non-government ...

Naturally, this resulted in the ballooning national debt ($35.5 trillion or 123% of gross domestic product in fiscal 2024). The Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), led by Elon Musk ...

A credit card interest rate cap proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comes as APRs jumped to 21% last year.

rising debt, growing reliance on taxing workers, and a deficit that just won’t quit. These eight charts tell the real story. Treasury predicts the budget will record an underlying budget deficit ...

The NDIS, health, defence and welfare are the biggest strains on the nation’s finances, along with interest payments on the huge debt that built up during the Covid pandemic and as spending has ...

In this edition of Data Spotlight, we look at economic estimates to refine forecasts, leveraging loans data for better ...

Ongoing risks of the Trump trade war have market watchers suggesting that 401(k) investors prepare to see 'more fits and starts.' ...

The total amount of credit card debt has ballooned to $1.2 trillion in Q4 of 2024 up from $720 billion in the same quarter of 2004, per the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. More people are ...

The US Treasury has injected $500 billion into financial markets since February by drawing liquidity from its Treasury ...