Before President Donald Trump started mass layoffs of federal workers, he demonized them, arguing, despite evidence to the ...

Brookings Institution researchers drew attention to an article by long-time Republican Mitch Daniels in the Washington Post, ...

Debt rises when the government spends more than it collects. When we examine federal spending (see chart below) we find it tends to increase during times of war and during a crisis. For example ...

Donald Trump’s attempt to align foreign aid with his America First policy is too blunt and will have deadly consequences.

The national debt surpassed $35 trillion for the first ... among states with the most student loan debt. Maryland tops the charts with the most debt among borrowers per capita.

It’s vital for Congress to pair pro-growth tax cuts with pro-growth spending reforms. The federal budget itself needs a ...

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The Nifty index opened flat, and witnessed selling pressure in the first half, but saw a sharp recovery in the second half, ...

In terms of portfolio breakdown, Government Funds are seeing an ongoing rise in holdings of Treasury Debt (effectively bills). In the wider market setting, Bills now represent some 22% of overall ...

It’s a long list that includes Arthur Laffer, whose theories on tax cuts and supply-side economics fundamentally reshaped ...

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