Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.3% in Q4 2024, according to the second estimate. The latest ...

Such an event is not “off the charts” but has already happened ... except in World War II, when the US debt to GDP ratio has been as high. That was in very different conditions.

a historic Fed tightening cycle and more – the debt/GDP ratio has hardly changed. "Cassandra wannabes will be right someday. History proves that. But they will be those Cassandra wannabes who ...

F ollowing the contentious/disastrous meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian ...

Economic conditions today are more fragile than in March 2018 when Trump 1.0 signed a memorandum. Click to read.

As we step further into 2025, financial markets are grappling with a rapidly evolving landscape. The return of Donald Trump, significant shifts in US fiscal policy and global monetary realignments ...

In Ray Dalio's forthcoming book "How Countries Go Broke" he argues that the United States' budget deficit should be cut.

All eyes are on Congress as they scramble to extend the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA), which will shrink the nation’s ...

By Ebenezer NJOKU “The economy is at a crossroads.” This is no news! After repeated cycles of unsustainable debt accumulation ...

In the 1990s, the United States ... charts provide some historical perspective on military spending. U.S. national defense spending has ranged widely, from less than 1 percent of GDP in 1929 ...