A recent email I received from “P” asked for my opinion of “the current safety of U.S. Treasuries in this uncertain time.” ...

The budget plan the Senate passed before dawn on Friday leaves large hurdles for President Donald Trump’s tax cut agenda and ...

The federal debt limit is not the same as funding the government. If the U.S. defaults on its debt, the ramifications are different than when ...

Those measures give Congress extra time to tackle the U.S. debt-limit problem without triggering a default. However, they also have limits, which means the clock has already started ticking on how ...

OPEC and its allies face a tricky dilemma: should they start loosening oil production caps even though the crude supply and ...

The rising costs of federal debt, an impending budget showdown, and Congressional turmoil is highlighting the complex relationship between Treasury securities and municipal bonds.

Yields on Treasury bills set to mature in July and August have been climbing, reflecting growing concerns the U.S. debt-ceiling battle.

Wendy Edelberg is the director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and was chief economist of the ...

In practice, it is widely believed that a sustained debt ceiling breach would force the Treasury Department to default on America’s debt payments, a development that would likely trigger an ...