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America’s looming debt crisis
History supports Moody’s assessment that “successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to ...
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Trump Is Setting the US Economy Up for Another Great Financial Crisis
The financial system of the United States has always been prone to instability and crises. Now, however, under the new Trump ...
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US Fed proposes easing post-crisis capital rule for big banks as critics warn of ‘financial stability risks’
The US Federal Reserve released plans yesterday to relax a key capital rule for major banks, a move they say can help ...
Senate Republicans move to slash consumer bureau funding by half, risking hundreds of job cuts
Senate Republicans have proposed cutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding by nearly half. The move is part ...
Why Johns Hopkins, the top-funded US university, is now losing billions in research aid
Johns Hopkins University, the top federally funded research institution in the US, is facing severe financial losses due to ...
Half of all private-sector workers in the U.S. have no access to a retirement plan, study finds
Tens of millions of Americans are unable to save for retirement through their jobs. "That's not a gap — it's a crisis," one expert says.
US current account gap clocks pre-2008 crash milestone
The U.S. balance of payments gap as a share of annual economic output hit its widest point in almost 20 years during the ...
Transcript: The end of the UK’s ‘bailout era’
Michela Tindera Late last month, the UK government privatised the final bank that it bailed out during the 2008 financial ...
The U.S. dollar’s decline has room to run, but the AI boom could stop it
Investors betting on U.S. AI leadership could soften the blow of waning dollar dominance, allowing America to go from “hyper ...
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Warren slams push to revise supplementary leverage ratio
Mass., sent a letter to banking regulators urging them to preserve the enhanced Supplemental Leverage Ratio, warning that a ...
As The Byrd Bath Continues, Here’s A Look At What Will Likely Be Out Of The One Big Beautiful Bill (Updated)
Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian, has flagged a growing list of provisions that would be prohibited under the ...
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How Uncle Sam’s Debt ’Crisis’ Is Making Our Favorite 8%+ Dividends Cheaper
Today, as in 2017, about 18% of US GDP goes to the federal government. That’s $5.2 trillion, at the current size of the US economy. Looked at another way, if Uncle Sam were to divert all of that ...