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The 2008 financial crisis led to a significant increase in US national debt.
The Federal Reserve’s U.S. dollar swap lines are short-term reciprocal currency arrangements that let the Fed exchange dollars for foreign central banks’ currencies so those central banks can lend dol...
Mark Carney is a Canadian economist and former central banker who transitioned from leading the Bank of Canada to governing the Bank of England and, more recently, to party politics as Canada’s prime ...
A clear tally of how federal debt held by the public changed under each president since 2000 exists in government records, but available reporting in this packet supplies firm dollar figures only for ...
Since 2000 the national debt has climbed from historically moderate levels to a post‑WWII high relative to GDP, rising steadily in normal years and surging after major crises—notably the and the —so t...
Campaign merchandise production since 2008 moved between entrenched offshore sourcing and intermittent pushes to reshore or near‑shore, driven less by politics of specific campaigns and more by macro ...
Past DHS hiring bonus programs have in at least some instances included formal repayment language: the department’s Management Directive 3170.1 explicitly requires recruits who leave before completing...
Across recent administrations, the biggest drivers of debt increases have been a mix of large tax cuts (which reduced revenue), major discretionary spending for wars and national security, crisis-era ...