Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is aiming to narrow the budget deficit even as as he ramps up populist welfare measures and seeks to squeeze more revenue from the country’s natural resources https://t.co/wCU2P2ZHCL ...

Stalling economic growth, slumping oil revenues and a widening budget deficit are the tense backdrop for Putin's summit with Trump to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine https://t.co/lqdW1kb7oc ...

⚡️TODAY: Jim Cramer says Bitcoin is a “great hedge against the budget deficit.” https://t.co/qk83yqQv1w ...

One of the largest departments in the Canadian government told employees they may face job losses as Prime Minister Mark Carney searches for spending cuts to keep the budget deficit contained. https://t.co/KbfppWTWEZ ...

Well, one of the investors profiled in the Big Short is not worried about the size of the budget deficit. Steve Eisman is host of the Real Eisman Playbook podcast. He's former senior portfolio manager at Newberger Burman.He joins us here on set. Um Steve, you said this before. It doesn't matter.People have been running against us for decades. 40 years. 40 years.When do you think will it. You know what I say about all this. Just stop.God's sake. You know, I'm gonna say this. Maybe it's a little too obnoxious ...

RT Ray Dalio (@RayDalio)After spending time in Washington, DC discussing the budget deficit with senior people on both sides of the aisle, it’s clear to me that we are unlikely to change the debt trajectory we’re on and avoid the painful consequences.While virtually everyone agrees on the need to address our debt problem in a balanced way that includes tax increases and cuts to benefits, they also agree that they cannot speak up because politics have become absolutist.We must find a solution around absoluti ...

RT Ray Dalio (@RayDalio)"I promise to not raise your taxes" and "I promise to not cut your benefits" are the two popular political promises that are inconsistent with the much more needed promise "I promise to cut the budget deficit to about 3 percent of GDP" that is required to prevent a big debt/dollar crisis. There is no way that the deficit/debt bomb problem can be sustainably dealt with unless there is a mix of tax revenue increases and spending decreases that are determined in a bipartisan way. Our re ...

In the last of 15 years, there's been a number of corrections on the 500 and in every single one of them. When the S&P goes down more than 10%, the dollar index, the trade weighted dollar index goes up. This time.The dollar went down when the S&P 500 went down almost 20%. That's that's strange. Things are behaving differently.Usually when the Fed starts cutting interest rates, rates across the yield curve go down. The ten year Treasury almost always goes up immediately following the first Fed rate rate cut, ...