Learn why state governments can't run fiscal deficits like the federal government, focusing on balanced-budget laws and their ...

Learn how fiscal policies like government spending and tax changes impact budget deficits. Understand their influence on economic stability and growth.

Nearly 100 Minnesota mayors united to challenge state fiscal policies, citing vanishing $18 billion surplus and looming ...

The twin deficits hypothesis has long been central to macroeconomic debates, positing that a government’s chronic fiscal deficit may generate or exacerbate a current account deficit. This ...

Economists project that the Indian government will maintain its fiscal deficit target of 4.4% of GDP for FY26, leveraging a ...

French senators approved a 2026 budget bill on Monday that the government said would worsen the fiscal deficit by more than it had planned, setting the stage for high-stakes negotiations between both ...

# The Government slashed its fiscal deficit by 32 percent, or almost one-third, for the first two months of the current 2025-2026 Budget year due to a more than $50m decline in the amount of ‘red ink’ ...