Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Since 1950 and before 2007, the way to bet was that, whatever the current gap between U.S. real GDP and potential output was, the U.S. economy would close 2/5 of that gap over the course of the next ...

Wondering why all of this budget shutdown mishegoss is happening right now? Well, October 1 is technically New Year’s Day for the federal government’s finances. And apparently, Congress’s resolution ...

The Congressional Budget Office projects that public debt will eclipse 120 percent of GDP within a decade. California is ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Nonprofits focused on fiscal policy are concerned about the federal spending bill that would cut $1.1 billion from the District of Columbia’s budget. The bill treats D.C. as ...

Risk assets face near-term headwinds as weak fiscal flows and large tax collections extract liquidity from the private sector. The Federal Reserve's recent rate cut signals a shift to looser monetary ...

Terry Lane is a writer for Investopedia with 25 years of experience in journalism and communications. He covers personal finance, Congress, government regulations, and economics. Investopedia / Photo ...

Louisiana’s annual budgets swelled more than 71% over the past decade, ticking up year after year under a Democratic governor who expanded Medicaid and led the state through the COVID crisis. While ...

In a move that could reshape federal fiscal policy for the next decade, Republicans just passed a sweeping House budget bill that sets the stage for dramatic spending cuts—including a recalibration of ...

More derision followed when it turned out that if Ottawa wanted to spend more than the guardrail allowed, it just leapt over ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Kevin Warsh has complained about the size of the Federal ...