Forget all the hand-waving about the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real justification for research investment ...

It’s government shutdown season, and lawmakers are gearing up for a bitter showdown ahead of the Sept. 30 funding deadline.

Over the past 35 years, Congress has used emergency funding rules to bypass budget controls and spend a cumulative $15 trillion, a new analysis reveals. That sum, financed almost entirely through ...

Over a third of the United States federal government's revenue comes from the country's four most-populous states, but they often get back less than they contribute. Known as "donor states," 19 states ...

In October 2024, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen addressed the Council on Foreign Relations to tout the Biden administration’s “modern supply-side economics.” She argued that more government spending ...

Columbus Zoo and other nonprofits shouldn't hide behind legal interpretations of whether your books should be open.

Florida’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a state task force established by Gov. Ron DeSantis in February, plans to look into Orange County’s finances to seek out examples of what they ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation A Bayesian factor-augmented interacted vector autoregression framework purified of expectations is employed to analyze how ...

Sophisticated private sources could provide a fuller picture of the state of the economy. But the government is not even ...

Deal Breaker: Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought admitted the $9 billion in spending clawbacks were just the beginning of dismantling bipartisan fiscal agreements. Here, Vought ...