Here are seven key budget charts that shed light on ... The federal budget has just had a two-year stint in surplus following a decade and half in deficit. But the government’s finances are ...

These eight charts tell the real story. Treasury predicts the budget will record an underlying budget deficit ... creep. Spending is forecast to hit 27 per cent of GDP next financial year.

It would allow Republicans to cut taxes by more, trim spending ... in 10 years. That means that, while their costs are the same initially, the new version could increase federal deficits and ...

Asia’s export-dependent economies have been directly in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s stop-and-start trade war, ...

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The US government has run high budget deficits for years—it last had a surplus in ... has been tasked with eliminating spending and reducing the size of government. To this end, federal grants ...

The issue is not whether key Allied spending should rise ... these shortfalls translate into massive real-world deficits: Notwithstanding years of rearmament discussion, NATO members have ...

It is worse than a Seinfeld budget, as I wrote about last year’s effort. It is a budget of neglect. Jim Chalmers has doubled down on inflationary spending ... we still face deficits for the ...

Every few years, Congress discusses some form of spending ... the only way to reduce the budget deficit (and ever start paying off the federal debt) is to cut spending. A government that ignores this ...

Trump and his advisers point to America’s lopsided trade numbers — year ... spending is used for imports. If the United States boosted its saving — for example, by reducing its budget ...

Mr. Trump announced last week that vehicles and auto parts imported into the U.S. will be subject to a 25% tariff rate. The ...

Profits increased to $4 trillion in Q4, a gain of 5.4% for the quarter and 7% for the year ... consumer spending growth falling to 0.3% (down from +4.0% in Q4). The February trade deficit in ...