Don’t be misled about what’s driving our budget deficit
Using this benchmark, we can attribute 71 percent of the 2025 deficit to spending policy decisions and 29 percent to tax ...
US trade imbalance with China: What is a trade deficit vs trade surplus? Why it matters
US has highest trade deficit in the world. Who has highest trade surplus? Here's what trade imbalance and reciprocal tariffs ...
Why Cutting Government Workers Won’t Solve U.S. Spending Problems
The focus on reducing the size of government employment, at least as a percentage of all employment, is a search for ...
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget12d
CBO Releases March 2025 Long-Term Budget and Economic Outlook
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has put out a press release on the report and will publish our full analysis ...
Morningstar5d
U.S. trade deficit will pummel growth in first quarter, raising recession risk. Tariffs won't help.
The trade gap narrowed in February from a record high in the prior month The numbers: The U.S. international trade deficit narrowed 6.1% in February to $122.7 billion after hitting a record high ...
MarketWatch5d
U.S. trade deficit will pummel growth in first quarter, raising recession risk. Tariffs won’t help.
The numbers: The U.S. international trade deficit narrowed 6.1% in February to $122.7 billion after hitting a record high in the prior month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The deficit ...