When interest rates rise, everyone — including the federal government — pays more to borrow. What does that mean for the ...

Curbing the federal government's roughly $2 trillion budget deficit could lower inflation and current interest rates for households, a CRFB report finds.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's 10-year outlook projects worsening long-term federal deficits and rising debt, driven largely by increased spending, notably on Social ...

We look at the effects of debt and primary fiscal balances on sovereign credit ratings through the lens of a simple model. We find that the ratings differ from the implications of the model in three ...

The federal government brought in $334 billion in the month of July, with most of that coming directly out of workers’ paychecks. That same federal government spent $766 billion in July, with most of ...