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This week, the House and Senate gave final approval to a $40.1 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill for Ukraine.

Economists looking for solid clues about the future path of inflation were stymied by Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released this week.

The U.S. economic recovery from the COVID-induced recession continues to surprise. On April 28, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its preliminary estimate of first quarter real GDP for 2022. Most economists predicted a slowdown from the explosive 6.9 percent…

The House and Senate returned this week after a two-week spring break. Lawmakers have a lot on their plates between now and the end of the year—a year shortened by the campaign season and the November midterm elections. As…

The week of April 4 began with hopeful optimism as a bipartisan group of Senators reached a tentative agreement to replenish emergency funds needed to restock federal supplies of COVID vaccines, therapeutics, and testing equipment. With COVID cases rising…

WASHINGTON - The Concord Coalition today welcomed President Biden’s goal of reducing federal budget deficits but cautioned that the path of deficit reduction reflected in the administration’s newly released Fiscal Year 2023 Budget is based on optimistic economic assumptions and unlikely…

One of the most memorable lines in cinema comes from the 1975 Steven Spielberg film, “Jaws,” where after a brief but terrifyingly close encounter with the razor-sharp teeth of the eponymous mega-shark, a visibly shaken Sheriff Brody turns to…

National leaders play a dangerous game of policy “chicken” every time they defer corrective action on known challenges, hoping to address them later when it’s more politically expedient. But this “kick the can” strategy risks a slow moving cumulative…