Although it is not certain why rates have been rising so dramatically in the last month, it’s likely that they are being fueled by higher oil prices, a hot consumer spending rep ...
Strong economic growth will be needed to help fix the debt problems the country faces, and lawmakers should take growth ...
Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Scott Peters (D-CA), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum, recently sent a ...
Deficit reduction today could also prevent a fiscal crisis, where the national debt grows so high or so quickly that ...
The interest rate on the ten-year Treasury note topped 5 percent today for the first time since 2023 and – outside of 2023 – the first time since 2007.
On September 21, 2026, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Co-Chair and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta testified before a hearing of the House Budget Committee on "America’s Fiscal ...
Social Security’s retirement trust fund will be insolvent by mid-2032, according to the latest projections from the Congressiona ...
Congress has excluded or erased over $12 trillion in deficit-increasing provisions from the five-year Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard and over $17 trillion from the ten-year scorecard between 2010, ...
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