It didn't take long for the U.S. to rack up another trillion dollars of debt
• marketwatch.com By Robert SchroederLatest $1 trillion jump took about six months
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WASHINGTON With Congress teetering on the brink of its third government shutdown in three months, Sen. Rand Paul still hasn't seen the details of a new budget bill that's likely to be 1,000 pages long -- and he's not pleased.
A government shutdown will be averted once again. The cost is a bunch of goodies spread around to buy enough votes.
Well, it happened again. On Friday afternoon, the national debt of the United States hit another major milestone, soaring past $21 trillion for the first time ever.
Tim Picciott CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and owner of The Liberty Advisor break down the true value of Andrew McCabe's outrageous "public servant" pension.
Tim Picciott CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and owner of The Liberty Advisor break down the true value of Andrew McCabe's outrageous "public servant" pension.
Tim Picciott CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and owner of The Liberty Advisor break down the true value of Andrew McCabe's outrageous "public servant" pension.
Tim Picciott CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and owner of The Liberty Advisor break down the true value of Andrew McCabe's outrageous "public servant" pension.
Tim Picciott CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and owner of The Liberty Advisor break down the true value of Andrew McCabe's outrageous "public servant" pension.
Tim Picciott CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and owner of The Liberty Advisor break down the true value of Andrew McCabe's outrageous "public servant" pension.
Tim Picciott CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and owner of The Liberty Advisor break down the true value of Andrew McCabe's outrageous "public servant" pension.
February is traditionally not a good month for the US government income statement: that's when it usually runs a steep monthly deficit as tax returns drain the Treasury's coffers.
Financial guru Peter Schiff, who accurately predicted the recession of 2008, says the problems we face now are even bigger.
Dear Money & Crisis Reader, Our economy is not invincible.
Foreign holdings of U.S. securities rose to a record $18.4 trillion as of the end of June, according to preliminary data released by Treasury.
Congress wants the Defense Department to buy technology faster. Now it's beginning to do just that.
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Earlier this month, the United States government released its annual financial report for the year 2017.
Earlier this month, the United States government released its annual financial report for the year 2017.
US propaganda office set to 'go on the offensive'
This is getting pretty ridiculous. For old times sake, we recently checked on the Federal debt level during the month we arrived in the Imperial City as a 24-year old eager beaver. That was June 1970 and the Federal debt held by the public was $275 b
On February 19, I published a commentary about how the federal government couldn't account for $21 trillion and how the General Accounting Office concludes year after year that the nation's books are "not trustworthy" and not in compliance wi
The U.S. war industry is out of control. It has been since 1945. It finances political campaigns, thereby purchasing loyalty from elected officials.
A February 13 story in City Journal details how the $21 trillion was misplaced. It seems that when federal agencies can't balance their books, they just plug in a number to make them balance.
President Trump's presented his infrastructure plan, but it's dead on arrival in Congress
...Too Large? It's really hard to argue that our military is underfunded, so perhaps our mission has grown too large. That mission includes being currently involved in combat operations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Niger, Libya, and Yemen
Voters don't seem to, and Republican lawmakers have stopped pretending.
Imagine you open the faucet of your kitchen sink expecting water and instead out comes cash. Now imagine that it comes out at the rate of $1 million a minute. You call your plumber, who thinks you're crazy. To get you off the phone, he opines that
A Republican lawmaker is set to unveil legislation that would make most bonuses given out as a result of President Trump's tax reform plan tax-free -- and took a jab at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi with the bill's name.
NASA's 2019 budget request formalizes the agency's handover of human-spaceflight activities in low-Earth orbit to private industry, in favor of a shift toward the moon.