News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| about 1 month ago
President Obama's effort to lead the world economic recovery by spending the U.S. out of its recession is undermining the dollar, triggering record commodities rallies as investors scour the globe for hard assets. As threats of a financial meltdown...
News Source: The Hindustan Times
| about 1 month ago
Fighting the worst financial turmoil in decades, the US saw its federal budget deficit more than treble to $1.42 trillion for the financial year ended September 30. The deficit stood at just $455 billion in the same period a year ago, according to...
News Source: Pakistan Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
The U.S. government ran a deficit of $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2009, the Treasury and the White House said Friday, smaller than predicted in August but more than triple the $455 billion shortfall recorded in 2008. The Obama administration's efforts to...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
The Federal Budget deficit was actually better than expected based on estimates done in May and August...The decline was also the result of receipts that were $31 billion higher than estimated in the Mid-Session Review. The final $1,417 billion...