In Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (NBER Working Paper 34455), Alan J. Auerbach and William Gale develop fiscal projections that incorporate the recently enacted One Big ...

Central planning is bad, which means government spending is bad. Contra the most prominent number in economics (GDP), ...

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the federal deficit has declined by $516 billion on a trailing-12-month basis. Spending is basically flat, but revenue is up a remarkable 8.5 ...

The U.S. federal deficit remains historically high, but recent fiscal swings have not significantly disrupted economic growth or inflation trends. Since 2009, the Federal Reserve's shift to a quantity ...

Roughly a third of the revenue boom resulted from Trump’s unprecedented, near-universal tariffs on imports. Yet more than half of the revenue increase came from rising wages and realized capital gains ...

The national conversation around fiscal policy is heating up as economic experts weigh in on President Donald Trump’s approach to government spending and taxation. Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni ...

(The Center Square) – Republicans’ recently-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add trillions to the federal deficit and debt over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s ...

President Donald Trump's "big beautiful" tax-and-spending bill, which he signed into law on July 4, is forecast to increase federal deficits by at least $3.4 trillion over the next decade, according ...

The federal government ran a budgetary deficit of $18.4-billion for its April-to-October period. The result compared with a deficit of $14.5-billion for the same period a year earlier, according to ...