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Sweden is too generous for its own good as the country most beloved by Bernie Sanders is pressured by huge migrant flows
Washington is at "war" over the budget again. "Conservative" Speaker Paul Ryan is out with a big-spending $1.07 trillion budget and the "budget hawk" House Freedom Caucus wants to cut $30 billion. So much ado about so little. Another budget, another
In a bid to raise cash, foreign central banks and government institutions sold $57.2 billion of U.S. Treasury debt and other notes in January, according to figures released on Tuesday.
The U.S. sends billions to foreign militaries each year. What do we have to show for it?
The Negatives of PLUS Loans
In the 21st century Americans have been distracted by the hyper-expensive "war on terror."
It is well known that California has a pension problem that offers a challenge for public officials and current and future retirees alike.
--to 'maintain their dignity' under £550million EU disaster fund
Back from a week in the wilds of Myanmar -- more on that in Prime Meridians this coming weekend -- to find a lot of action happening globally in both energy and mining.
The idea of a basic income for everyone, provided by the government regardless of employment status, is coming back to Canada for the first time since Pierre Elliott Trudeau was in power.
As Venezuela grows closer to exhausting nearly every means of paying its debt, some oil market participants are seriously pondering the possible implications of an unprecedented event: the default of a major crude producing company.
Hot off the presses, the US government just published its audited financial statements this morning, signed and sealed by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
When last we looked at the effect America's multiple state and local government fiscal crises are having on the country's school systems, we noted that budget drama across both Illinois and Pennsylvania threatened to force layoffs and class cance
Hey federal government! The middle class would like some help, too.
Illinois has gone seven months without a budget, and it's having an immediate impact on the state's most vulnerable.
The Chicago Board of Education is on the verge of a bond market shutoff.
In case you missed it, yesterday we alerted you that the United States government has now officially accumulated $19 trillion in debt.
Wants More Money for Overseas Contingency Operations
U.S. policymakers have been in a precarious position since backing the coup that overthrew Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
The great reverse engineering expedition
Mankiw's claim that college costs are the inevitable result of Baumol's Disease is pure self-serving rubbish.
Providence, the capital of Rhode Island, is in such bad financial straits that Former Hasbro CEO Alan Hassenfeld has this scary message for state officials Providence Should Consider Bankruptcy.
President Barack Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan may sit down together at the White House for a long-anticipated meeting as soon as next week, a person familiar with their plans said.
-The Endless Failure To Train And Equip The Iraqi And Afghan Military Forces
Thousands Of Angry Students "Flood" Government With Demands For Debt Relief
Puerto Rico's economy is collapsing, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Friday as he announced a visit to the US territory two weeks after its debt default.
U.S. President Barack Obama is not just the world's best gun salesman, he's also the world's worst gun control spokesperson.
If you subsidize something, you get more of it. Including debt and "free" money. Including the military-industrial complex. Including illegal immigration. And so on. Government subsidies are the prime tools of the central planners.
A striking example of how dangerously Americans are misinformed and misled by the war party was featured in a major article on 24 December, New York Times.