Tag: Budgets and Deficits

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2013 file photo, Indian and foreign currency notes lie in a drawer of a foreign currency exchange shop in Bangalore, India. The Treasury Department reports how much foreign buyers adjusted their holdings of U.S. debt in June 2014 on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

Foreign holdings of Treasury debt top $6 trillion

Martin Crutsinger · August 15, 2014 2:19 pm

NY settlement with debt collector on payday loans

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 7:01 am

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe says deal reached on surplus program's red tape

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe says deal reached on surplus program’s red tape

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 3:16 am

VIDEO: What are corporate tax inversions?

Ed Sykes · August 14, 2014 7:25 pm

Americans are increasingly willing to take on credit card debt or to take out loans to buy cars or to go to college, but they're still shying away from the biggest category of consumer credit: home loans. (iStock Photo)

Americans are borrowing more for everything except the one thing Obama wants

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2014 3:03 pm

Spending on the welfare state is sending the economy down the drain. (iStock)

America’s question: Cut or crash?

Terence Jeffrey · August 14, 2014 2:51 pm

Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, left, meets with Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, during the Senate session, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Sacramento, Calif. Lawmakers are scheduled to vote Wednesday on a measure that would swap out an existing water bond on the November ballot and authorize billions in borrowing to pay for new reservoirs, groundwater cleanup and habitat restoration. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Energy and Environment

Californians to vote on $7.5 billion water plan

Fenit Nirappil · August 14, 2014 5:08 am

Treasury takes step toward oil spill trust fund

Washington Examiner · August 14, 2014 1:36 am

Judge delays Detroit bankruptcy trial start 8 days

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 10:30 pm

Correction: Postal Service-Losses story

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 9:24 pm

The trust fund for the disability program will run out in late 2016, Social Security's Board of Trustees warned in late July. Without congressional action, disabled workers would immediately face a 25 percent cut in their benefits.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

A showdown is coming over Social Security, but it’s not about retirement

Joseph Lawler · August 13, 2014 7:33 pm

Despite the alarm bells, U.S. not getting hammered financially by companies leaving

Joseph Lawler · August 13, 2014 4:00 pm