Microsoft Corp. is bigger than most countries’ whole stock markets and its bond rating would be the envy of many nations. Now ...

The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of federal debt that the US government can have outstanding. Read ...

The 10-year Treasury yield was a touch softer and threatening to break a five-day streak of gains that took the benchmark borrowing cost to its highest level since January 23, following a hotter-than ...

Gold revaluation gives the Treasury new options though. As described above, paying down Treasury bills could lengthen the maturity of the Treasury’s debt. In addition, the Fed’s holdings of Treasury ...

Elon Musk's DOGE aims to cut $4T from the federal budget, but the $36T national debt remains a major challenge.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...

U.S. Treasury yields were edging higher, extending the previous day's move, ahead of January inflation data at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. "Even if the annual rate falls back, the threats of Trump tariffs ...

The job of policing financial firms for compliance with consumer protection laws has functionally disappeared, ...

The president's comments about Treasury notes were, for all intents and purposes, gibberish. But more importantly, they were ...

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a new plan in the fight to bring down historically high interest rates, and it’s got nothing to do with the Federal Reserve. Bessent, in two interviews this week, ...

The country risks an economic "heart attack" if lawmakers are unable to reel in the national debt, warns one hedge fund ...