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In its biannual ten-year projections released on April 9, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) foresaw the budget deficit averaging 4.9% of GDP from 2019 to 2028, an increase…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB232052
ISSN: 2633-304X
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This has implications for the size of the workforce and the living standards that the US economy is capable of supporting. It will also have broader consequences for the US…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB266460
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Part of its policy tightening will involve reducing its balance sheet, which has expanded from just over USD4tn at end-2019 to almost USD9tn. The Fed stopped buying bonds last…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB267913
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The Democrats are seeking to revive their party’s fortunes in legislative and electoral battles from the nadir following the political upsets of 2016. As the party seeks to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB225030
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President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last year. Congressional Republicans blocked former President…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB217794
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This is Canada's first balanced budget since the 2008-09 financial crisis, but had been delayed by about two months. This was ostensibly due to the government's need to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB199099
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US presidential candidates' vice-presidential picks.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB213283
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The NSS seeks to balance the strategic challenges of great power rivalry and the range of transnational threats that affect US security and prosperity. Russia’s aggression in…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273374
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Some economists are suggesting that, over the longer term, this could cause financial markets to stop buying US debt and charge prohibitively high rates, and cause the dollar to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB261815
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For the last two decades income inequality among workers has widened in the United States and become a significant political issue. However, the tight post-COVID-19 labour market…