Michael Farr, chairman of FarrCrest Capital, raised questions about personal responsibility at the University of Delaware’s ...

Three years since the outbreak of the pandemic, fiscal policy has moved a long way toward normalization. Governments have withdrawn exceptional fiscal support, and public debt and deficits are falling ...

The Eurogroup welcomes the political agreement, which was reached in February 2024 on a comprehensive reform of the EU's economic governance framework and looks forward to its timely adoption by the ...

The federal government routinely uses government spending and taxes to help offset the highs and lows of the U.S. business cycle. While government spending typically increases during a recession, the ...

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Amid heightened uncertainty, policymakers will need to deal with complex trade-offs between debt, slower growth, and new spending pressures April 23, 2025 Major policy shifts underway have heightened ...

The broad fiscal deficit — the sum-up of narrow deficit plus off-balance-sheet items like special-purpose bonds and special treasury bonds — stands at 8.1 percent for 2026, said Luo Zhiheng, chief ...