A government shutdown could add another headwind to an already-precarious economy, but most analysts say that even a prolonged hiatus would have only a limited impact on the wider U.S. economy. With ...

President Trump may paint China as the enemy, but lately he's been awfully fond of their command-economy playbook. Why it matters: Trump's extraordinary interventions — which dovetail with what some ...

ANALYSIS — Does Donald Trump’s tariff plan and related goal of revamping the U.S. economy amount to central planning by an overstepping president or him executing the “will of the people”? When it ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. federal government shutdown is starting to impact the nation's economy, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday as the closure entered its 13th day ...

Director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, Rice University The economic consequences of the current federal government shutdown hinge critically on how long it lasts. If it is ...