The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, easing monetary policy for the second time this year. The cut, which was widely expected, reduces the ...

President Trump said Thursday night that he is abruptly ending trade talks with Canada because of a video advertisement, paid for by the province of Ontario, that shows former President Ronald Reagan ...

Happy Monday and happy Diwali to those celebrating! President Donald Trump is now nine months into his second term, and the government shutdown will be three weeks old tomorrow. We've got your evening ...

Happy Thursday! On this date in 2001, Apple released its iPod music player. The company reportedly sold some 450 million of the devices before discontinuing the product line in 2022. Unfortunately, ...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not receiving paychecks due to the government shutdown, but the White House has promised to pay some favored categories of employees such as servicemembers ...

Good evening. It's Day 24 of the government shutdown, and hundreds of thousands of federal workers missed their first full paychecks today while Congress was out. Speaker Mike Johnson announced that ...

Good evening. Here's what we were watching on Wednesday while waiting for the government to reopen and Game 5 of the World Series to start. On Day 29 of the government shutdown, tempers flared as ...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is beginning to receive book of the year awards, but has it changed anything within economics? There are two ways in which is has, one involving ...

We hear a lot about government debt, but what about government assets? Jill Mislinski of Advisor Perspectives looked at the Federal Reserve's financial accounts data and found that student loans make ...

The results of “the cost-sharing revolution” in health care — the decades-long shift of an increasing share of medical expenses onto patients, even for those with insurance — are not encouraging, a ...

President Obama vetoed a bill last week that would have limited the taxpayer money spent on expense accounts for former presidents. The bill, titled the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act and ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...