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TRUMP PLANS TO MAKE CLOSING ARGUMENT FOR TAX OVERHAUL WEDNESDAY
President Trump's speech will take place in Washington, said the person, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the event... READ MORE›
GOP MAY WORK NEXT ON WELFARE, MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY
The driver of our debt is the structure of Social Security and Medicare for future beneficiaries, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said this week... READ MORE›
BARRY GARDINER REFUSES TO SAY WHEN THE DEFICIT WOULD BE ELIMINATED UNDER A LABOUR GOVERNMENT
It comes after after John McDonnell also refused to answer questions about figures on Labour's borrowing plans because MPs have iPads and advisers for that... READ MORE›
CORPORATE TAX CUT WOULD BE PHASED OUT AFTER DECADE IN GOP PLAN
Cutting the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent is a key provision of the tax legislation that Republican congressional leaders plan to unveil on Thursday... READ MORE›
POLS TRYING TO MAKE TRUMP'S TAX PLAN LESS DAMAGING TO US DEFICIT
And that's why I continue to think more strongly than ever that a complete tax reform like what Washington is proposing will be impossible to accomplish... READ MORE›
TRUMP SUGGESTS PUERTO RICO'S DEBT MAY NEED TO BE 'WIPED OUT'
Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Making Sense of the Debacle Moody's Analytics estimated that the island sustained 95 billion in hurricane-related damage... READ MORE›
RICH WOULD BENEFIT MOST FROM TRUMP TAX CUT PLAN
A report from the non-profit Washington-based Tax Policy Centre found that in 2018, about 12 percent of taxpayers would face a tax increase of roughly 1,800 on average... READ MORE›
MOST ECONOMISTS AGREE: TRUMP TAX PLAN WILL WIDEN BUDGET DEFICIT
Trump's tax cut proposal calls for wide-ranging changes in the tax code for both companies and individuals... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Government Debt
TRUMP LASHES OUT AT MEDIA FOR FAILING TO REPORT DEBT DECREASE
WASHINGTON - President Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning to claim the media ignored some good news about his administration... READ MORE›
AMERICA'S BIGGEST CREDITORS DUMP TREASURIES IN WARNING TO TRUMP
After accounting for hedging costs, 10-year Treasuries yield about 0.9 percent, roughly 10 times the return offered by Japanese government bonds... READ MORE›
THEY SAID WHAT? FACT-CHECKING THE FINAL DEBATE BETWEEN CLINTON AND TRUMP
A running compilation of fact-checking during the third and final presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump... READ MORE›
CANADA'S RECORD HOUSEHOLD DEBT IS THREATENING ITS FINANCIAL STABILITY
He estimates Canada's total debt swelled to 294 percent of GDP in the second quarter and even higher in the third... READ MORE›
TRUMP: U.S. WILL NEVER DEFAULT 'BECAUSE YOU PRINT THE MONEY'
Trump U.S. will never default 'because you print the money'... READ MORE›
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS REBOUNDING, BUT THERE'S ONE BIG PROBLEM
However, this market is in its infancy, Spajic said of China's corporate credit and government debt... READ MORE›
JOHN MCDONNELL SAYS EMERGENCY FUNDS COULD SOLVE SOCIAL CARE CRISIS
Shadow chancellor calls on government to use autumn statement's 'fiscal headroom' to protect the elderly and the vulnerable... READ MORE›
CHINA'S HOLDINGS OF TREASURIES DROPPED IN 2016 BY MOST ON RECORD
Japan, America's largest foreign creditor, trimmed its holdings for a second straight year... READ MORE›
CHINA CEDES TOP U.S. CREDITOR CROWN TO JAPAN AS YUAN STRUGGLES
In October, China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell by 41.3 billion to 1.115 trillion, according to data from the U.S. Treasury Department... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP MOVES TO CLEAN UP ECONOMIC COMMENTS
This is the United States government, Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo... READ MORE›
BE CAREFUL, IT COULD GET PAINFUL
In October, Trump claimed his plan would unleash growth of 5 percent or 6 percent... READ MORE›
HOW TRUMP COULD ACCIDENTALLY FUEL A GLOBAL TRADE BOOM
Far from jolting the U.S. into a protectionist lurch, might President-elect Donald Trump unwittingly help buoy global trade next year?... READ MORE›
MAN WHO RAN GEORGE OSBORNES TREASURY COMES OUT AGAINST HIGH SPEED TWOA
Lord Macpherson, the Treasury's permanent secretary from 2005 to 2016, has told The Sunday Telegraph that the money should be spent on other road and rail projects... READ MORE›
A $1 TRILLION PAIN TRADE IN TREASURIES DIVIDES TOP BOND DEALERS
As a result, overall Treasury issuance has to rise a lot in the coming years... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN: POTHOLES OR A SMOOTH RIDE?
Some experts are skeptical of plan to finance the 550 billion proposal with private money... READ MORE›
CHINA'S HOLDINGS OF U.S. TREASURIES DROP BY MOST SINCE 2011
The People's Bank of China, owner of the world's biggest foreign-exchange reserves, has burned through a quarter of its war chest since 2014... READ MORE›
VOTERS FACE EPIC CHOICE AT GENERAL ELECTION OVER THE SIZE OF THE STATE
Balls also sees no reason to aim ideologically, as Labour sees it for an overall surplus on the public finances... READ MORE›
BOND MARKET DOOMSAYERS SOUND ALARM AS MARGIN OF SAFETY VANISHES
Yet after reaching 2.63 percent in March, 10-year yields once again retreated... READ MORE›
JEREMY CORBYN AND THE BIZARRE WORLD OF THE BOND TRADER
Yields on 10-year U.K government bonds, or gilts, have slipped below 1 percent... READ MORE›
CHINA'S JULY FISCAL SPENDING PACE SLOWS, BUT REVENUES RISE
Government spending in the first seven months of the year rose 14.5 percent on year, while revenues increased 10 percent... READ MORE›
WORST LOSS IN DECADES HAS JAPAN SHUNNING U.S. DEBT AT WRONG TIME
As a result, for Japanese investors, the currency-hedged yield on 10-year Treasuries is about 0.9 percent, or more than 0.8 percentage point above JGBs with the same maturity... READ MORE›
CUTS WILL NOT REDUCE THE GOVERNMENT DEFICIT
Cuts Will Not Reduce the Government Deficit - In Fact They Could Do Quite the Opposite... READ MORE›
CHINA ADVISERS RECOMMEND 7 PERCENT GROWTH GOAL IN 2015 AS LEADERS MEET
We recommended a growth target of around seven percent, said Zhu Baoliang, chief economist at the State Information Centre, a top government think-tank... READ MORE›
CHINA KEEPS 3 PERCENT BUDGET DEFICIT GOAL FOR 2017 AS DEBT RISKS GROW
The world's second-largest economy grew 6.7 percent last year, supported by higher government spending and record bank lending, though it was still the slowest growth in 26 years... READ MORE›
TRUMP DIPS TOE INTO DELICATE U.S. DEBT DISCUSSION
Currently, interest rates on U.S. government debt are near historically low levels, meaning the government is able to borrow cheaply... READ MORE›
ECB'S DRAGHI WANTS TO BUY BONDS, BUT WHO WILL SELL?
BIG HOLDERS Banks are big holders of government bonds, especially in the more indebted states that most need ECB support... READ MORE›
US BUDGET DEFICIT APPROACHES $600BN, PUBLIC DEBT TO REACH 77% OF GDP
The largest deficit America has seen is 1.4 trillion in 2009, which dropped to 485 billion in 2014... READ MORE›
CHINA SETS 3 PERCENT DEFICIT TARGET, TO CLAMP DOWN ON LOCAL DEBT RISK
It targeted a 6.5 percent increase in fiscal spending and 5 percent growth in revenue, and said the imbalance between revenue and expenditure remains serious ... READ MORE›
TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT BUDGETS FOR A BETTER WORLD
Morneau has mainstream economic opinion firmly on his side as he runs deliberately into the red... READ MORE›
KENYA SELLS FIRST EVER MOBILE GOVERNMENT BONDS
Kenyans can invest as little as 3,000 shillings directly from their mobile phone money accounts... READ MORE›