Fiscal 2023 Federal Budget Deficit Third-Largest Ever
It takes a lot of money to run the biggest government in the history of the world. The federal government ran a $1.695 trillion budget deficit in fiscal 2023. It was the third-largest deficit in U.S. history. The only time the feds ran bigger deficits was during the...
Here’s How the Federal Government Is Mucking Up the Inflation Fight
By hiking interest rates, the Federal Reserve has pulled some of its monetary stimulus out of the economy. While the Fed hasn’t done nearly enough to put the inflationary fire it lit with more than a decade of easy money, cooling consumer price index (CPI)...
The Federal Government Has a Spending Problem and That’s a Problem for Everybody
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the biggest government in history spends a lot of money. In fact, the entire system is built on borrowing and spending money. Most people don’t think it’s a problem, but in reality, it’s a ticking time...