If the U.S. government were a private-sector company, it would have filed for bankruptcy long ago to wash away its debt. But ...

What’s true about individual saving is true about government savings. No act of parsimony shrinks the size of government ...

With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

Axios Visuals Bond investors are supposed to wag their fingers at runaway government spending, so a megabill set to increase the deficit by over $3 trillion would typically send them into a tailspin.

Government Spending Is Money Poorly Spent President Biden touts the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act during a visit to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., January 28 ...

Government bond yields remain volatile on a daily basis but are expected to stay in the wider trading range of the past two years, Allianz Research says in a midyear outlook. Despite the heavy news ...

According to some very detailed tables in the New York Times for Monday, March 31, government spending on income security, which includes all welfare payments was just under ten percent of the budget.

When the federal government goes on a runaway spending spree, as it did during the Covid era of the closing year of the Trump administration and then into the first years of the Biden ...

The government spends money to put money in the pockets of consumers who in turn spend it. This is what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did during the Great Depression, and it is what Barack Obama did ...

In other words, 70 percent of everything the federal government will spend this year will amount to writing checks to benefit individuals. That's up from 28 percent in 1968 and 50 percent in 1991.

Musk defended his companies in a public exchange on X in September when businessman Vinod Khosla questioned how much support they receive from the government. "SpaceX gets no subsidies and ...

The government spends $500 million a year on Planned Parenthood. Here's where that money goes, where it comes from and how it's used.