Government. The Big G. Sometimes we talk about the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But since the birth of economics the two have been interwoven.

Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics. said the impact on the economy and financial markets will be limited if the federal government shutdown lasts just a week or two. Many federal ...

Congress is required to pass a budget annually, but has failed to do so on time in 94% of the past 33 years. Government shutdowns are rare, typically resolved quickly, and have a modest, temporary ...

Washington — The fight over funding the government is likely to be a costly one. Each week of the ongoing government shutdown could cost the economy $7 billion and reduce GDP growth by 0.1 percentage ...

WASHINGTON — Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks riskier, not least because President Donald Trump is threatening to ...

The federal government is hurtling toward a possible shutdown Tuesday night. The federal government is hurtling toward a possible shutdown at a delicate moment for the nation's economy, as a hiring ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington is hours away from another federal government shutdown, with prospects looking bleak for a last-minute compromise in Congress to avoid closures beginning at 12:01 a.m.

The ongoing partial government shutdown prevented the Labor Department from releasing the anticipated September jobs report as scheduled on Friday, causing economic data watchers to turn their ...

ST. PETERSBURG, June 20. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin emphasized the need to elevate the roles of both military unit commanders and leaders of enterprises within the defense industry complex in ...

Morgan Adamski will hand the role of executive director of U.S. Cyber Command to the NSA's Patrick Ware. “After 17 years of service at the National Security Agency, I’ve decided to turn the page to an ...