Massive $2 Trillion Deficit Expected in Fiscal 2023
Washington faces a spending showdown, but the fiscal year ending this month brings a dire reality – a projected $1.7 trillion deficit, roughly $13,500 per...
High Government Debt Levels Are Here to Stay. Why It Matters.
An electronic billboard at a bus shelter in Washington, D.C., displays the national debt. It topped $32.3 trillion in early July, and $32.9 trillion on...
Washington's Fiscal Blowout: Interest on Federal Debt Has Hit 15.5% Of All Federal Debt
President Biden and Congress have set alarming records with their skyrocketing spending and deficits. In just the first 10 months of the fiscal year, the...
World Leaders Warily Watch U.S. Debt-Limit Standoff
The impasse in Washington over raising the roughly $31.4 trillion borrowing limit is looming over a series of meetings of the Group of Seven advanced...
Yellen Doubts Biden Administration Can Avoid Default Without Congress
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Honey, the Fed Shrunk Global Dollar Credit: WSJ
It meant to curb borrowing in the U.S. and control inflation but instead unleashed something that may be more destabilizing. Source link...
Scrambling to Avoid Default, White House Weighs Debt-Limit Fallback Options
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Opinion: The Fed says don’t worry about U.S. banks, but why should anyone believe them?
The aftershocks of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), while seemingly fading, are still reverberating around the world. Although Federal Reserve officials have taken...
Shopping for Insurance Against a Debt-Ceiling Debacle? Buyer Beware: WSJ
Quirks in the market for credit-default swaps might distort the probability of the Treasury defaulting on U.S. government debt. Source link...
Ballooning National Debt Is a Rotten Legacy
William A. Galston writes the weekly Politics & Ideas column in the Wall Street Journal. He holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings...