A lot of noise has been made about a tiny detail in the proposed Amendment 2 to Louisiana’s constitution. That noise has ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he is “not worried” about recent market downturns because corrections are “healthy ...

After stocks' recent tumble and the volatility triggered by shifting tariff headlines, investors are crossing their fingers for a midyear tax cut. The economy's growth may hinge on it.

The Social Security Administration, which sends retirement and disability payments to 73 million people every month, is facing federal employee cuts of up to 12 percent of its workforce -- ...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) was one of just ten Democrats who voted Friday to advance the GOP's continuing resolution (CR) to avoid a governme ...

The U.S. has a lot of leverage over trade—but using it is not as simple as it seems.

The so-called Mar-a-Lago accord, which aims to replicate the Plaza Accord, in which the Reagan administration worked with several other countries to weaken the dollar, is far less likely to happen ...

Australia faces a potential tariff of between 2 per cent and 8 per cent on the $30 billion of exports sold to the United ...

If Wall Street investors had hoped Scott Bessent would moderate Trump’s punishing trade policies, the Treasury secretary is taking every opportunity to disabuse them of that notion.

Some Trump supporters have claimed that he is intentionally trying to induce economic pain to force the Federal Reserve to ...

Polling shows Trump retains strong support among Republicans for tariffs, government layoffs, cuts to medical research ...

Treasury modelling has revealed the total impact of the US tariffs on Australian steel and tariff imports will cause just a 0 ...