In a provocative challenge to traditional economic anxieties, top economist Justin Wolfers is reframing the widening U.S. trade gap not as a fiscal failure, but as an enormous physical “surplus” that ...

The U.S. government recorded a surplus in June, bolstered by increased tariff collections, the Treasury Department has reported. The surplus amounted to a little more than $27 billion, a stark ...

Budget officials, Walz and lawmakers all express a need for modest budgeting decisions this session despite improvements in ...

Minnesota’s projected budget surplus has grown to nearly $2.5 billion in the current two-year budget cycle, though a projected shortfall of almost $3 billion is expected in the following two years.

In recent speeches and media scrums, President Donald Trump has lauded the federal budget surplus for the month of June, claiming the surplus had not happened in “many, many years” or “decades.” To be ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled President Trump exceeded his powers and delared illegal the IEEPA tariffs that were the ...