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President Trump’s first year in office saw the federal deficit for fiscal year (FY) 2025 come in around $1.8 trillion — roughly $41 billion smaller than FY2024 according to Treasury and CBO-era report...
A government shutdown produces measurable short-term economic harm that can raise the national debt modestly through lost output and additional borrowing costs, while its effect on the sovereign credi...
President Donald Trump’s administration has produced in the fiscal year 2025 deficit compared with 2024, driven largely by tariff revenue and short‑term spending patterns, but the and long‑term projec...
Federal debt measured as the gross national debt climbed through 2025 as the Trump administration enacted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and related policies; reporting shows the headline nati...
Data compiled by multiple outlets show was substantially higher during ’s presidency (roughly mid-single digits annual averages) than during ’s four years (generally low single digits or below 2%), th...
A side‑by‑side "chart" comparison of Joe Biden and Donald Trump must separate measurable economic outcomes (GDP, jobs, inflation) from policy choices (taxes, trade, immigration) and from claims that h...
As of 2025, multiple contemporary reports place the United States’ gross national debt in the range, with specific published figures of and later headlines indicating the debt has by August 2025. Sour...
Data from multiple trackers and survey firms show U.S. aggregate consumer spending remained elevated year‑over‑year in 2025, driven largely by higher‑income households and holiday spending projections...
Fiscal stimulus under Biden — notably the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan — and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes to combat the 2021–22 surge were the central forces shaping the post‑pand...
There is no public, authoritative list that ranks U.S. pediatric hospitals by “financial efficiency” or “fundraising cost” in the way clinical rankings are produced; major industry coverage and trade ...
President Donald Trump’s first year back in office coincided with very large deficits: fiscal 2025 deficits are reported around $1.7–$1.8 trillion by multiple outlets , and year‑to‑date shortfalls in ...
The strongest evidence tying clusters in large coastal and Sun Belt metros where immigrant inflows met chronically constrained —most notably the and metros (including and the Bay Area) and high-growth...
(ARP) materially accelerated the post‑pandemic recovery: multiple analyses credit it with millions of additional jobs and a sharp uptick in 2021 GDP, while estimates of its contribution to inflation d...
Major financial research houses and academic teams attribute much of the to the interaction of sweeping and concurrent : tariffs acted as a supply-side tax that raised inflationary expectations and sl...
A sustained defense budget of would, by independent estimates, materially worsen federal debt over the next decade: the projects roughly $5 trillion in additional defense outlays through 2035 and abou...
Independent analyses generally credit the ) with materially accelerating the 2021 jobs rebound— and allied policy groups estimate roughly 4 million jobs attributable to ARP stimulus and show faster GD...
Mainstream, independent reporting since 2024 treats “quantum” as an emerging technical risk and opportunity for finance—centred on post‑quantum cryptography, pilot projects and regulatory roadmaps fro...
The question of whether the United States is barreling toward a recession has no single answer: mainstream market models put the odds anywhere from low-to-moderate to substantial, while regional and s...
Investor confidence and sovereign credit ratings shifted noticeably after the bailout: Moody’s downgraded the U.S. long‑term rating from Aaa to Aa1 on May 16, 2025, and agencies and market analysts li...
Corruption remains a pervasive global problem: Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a global average of 43 with over two‑thirds of countries scoring below 50 and 148 co...