You probably consider benefit checks a stable part of your retirement, but the government still has immense control over this ...

‘We’re not crying wolf anymore’: US ‘doomsday’ clock strikes closer to a financial crisis - Like an out-of-control spender ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps (CDS), market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, ticked lower on Monday amid market optimism that the longest federal ...

Stock markets around the world rallied Thursday as the United States temporarily resolved a political logjam that had raised the risk of a catastrophic US government default. The dollar was mixed ...