Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a ...
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Learn how to categorize and compute household expenses, including housing, food, transportation, and more, for budgeting and tax purposes.
Last week, the World Bank put out its assessment of President Bola Tinubu's economic policies and its impact on the people of Nigeria. The sum total of it was that 139 million Nigerians have been ...
Some data on consumption, production and hiring can be estimated using private sources, but inflation remains a blind spot.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized a hologram-like projection of Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan at the airport as wasteful spending. The projection, called a Proto Box, cost the city $75,000 and is ...
The two-week-old federal government shutdown is costing the U.S. economy about $15 billion a day in lost output, Treasury ...
The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report, leaving policymakers at the Federal Reserve with a cloudier picture even as the economy enters a challenging phase of stubbornly ...
Total federal debt was $620 billion in 1976. Why 1976? In a recent column, Holman Jenkins referenced Jimmy Carter’s contention in a 1976 debate that “The best way to control inflation is t ...
Raising income taxes for wealthy Americans is the most popular way of reducing the federal debt, according to the latest Gallup poll. The survey, conducted in September, asks Americans whether ...