Thirty out of 49 major developed countries could see their credit ratings plummet to junk status if they don’t make changes soon, says a Standard & Poor’s study. The biggest problem is health care spending on the elderly, parti…
Investors received another sign Friday that the U.S. economy is continuing to heal: The 2010 U.S. budget deficit came in at a smaller-than-predicted $1.29 trillion. Though it was still the second-highest deficit on record, the …
The federal deficit will amount to the equivalent of approximately 10% of U.S. gross domestic product for the fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, according to a Treasury official. That’s about the same percentage as the previous…
Investors received another slice of good news Monday about the U.S. economy: The federal budget deficit for August totaled a smaller than expected $90.5 billion, thanks to rising government revenues due to higher tax receipts f…
The annual U.S. budget deficit is well over a trillion dollars, and in the long term, that’s unsustainable. But a closer look at the sources of most of that gap shows that balancing the budget wouldn’t be nearly as hard as it m…