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OPEC+ has agreed to raise oil production by a further 188,000 barrels per day from August, marking the fifth consecutive monthly…
Japan’s yen is resembling a slow-motion train wreck as it remains stuck near 40-year lows, and there could be even…
Believe it or not, U.S. debt was once a source of national strength, before it became a sword of Damocles…
AI could shave $2.2 trillion off the U.S. deficit by 2036. But according to a new working paper from economists…
The Federal Reserve retains a special status in the government that shields it from interference by the White House, the…
S&P Global Ratings affirmed the US’s credit rating at AA+, one level below the top rank, citing a resilient economy…
The national debt—a barely comprehensible $39 trillion—seems, to hear economists tell it, forever one shock away from bringing the whole…
When President Trump announced his plans for a new tariff regime, he said the action was “primarily to pay down…
Lawmakers have long known that Social Security faces a day of reckoning but have dodged any reforms that would cut…
Soaring U.S. debt and projections that put it at astronomical levels in the coming years have set off increasing panic,…