Public Finance

A month ago Lehigh Valley sat 81/2 games behind in both the International League North Division and the wild card race, trailing three teams in the division and four (not including the division leaders) in the wild card standings. When the IronPigs...

The U.S. economy is improving, yet Congress seems still to be in the grip of the delirium that shrinking the deficit in the near term is still a matter of paramount urgency. That's what's prevented lawmakers from dealing with their real task, which is to...

Re "Deficit extremists, blind to data, are doing active economic harm," Column, June 12 It is so refreshing to read Michael Hiltzik's explanation of how Congress' ill-timed obsession with deficit reduction actually retards economic growth. Other...

* Three billion euros to go toward public works * Electricity bills to be lightened by 550 million euros * Letta says more measures to come next week * Repeats 2013 deficit will be under 3 percent of GDP By Steve Scherer ROME, June 15 (Reuters) -...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund urged the United States on Friday to repeal sweeping government spending cuts and recommended that the Federal Reserve continue a bond-buying program through at least the end of the year. In its...

WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund on Friday urged U.S. officials to scale back its automatic federal spending cuts, warning that they were "excessively rapid and ill-designed" and were hurting the nation's economic recovery "The sequester...

WASHINGTON — Amid speculation that the Federal Reserve soon might start scaling back its stimulus efforts, the International Monetary Fund cautioned that a pullback before next year could hurt economies worldwide. Highlighting its concern Friday,...

The amnesty under consideration in Congress would come at an enormous cost: more than $5 trillion over the lifetime of immigrants who are legalized. But the bill is structured to hide most of those costs from voters. To see how, let's start with some...

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Friday urged the United States to repeal sweeping federal budget cuts that will be a severe drag on economic growth this year. In its annual check of the health of the U.S. economy, the...

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. current account deficit widened in the first quarter to $106.1 billion, a government report showed on Friday. The Commerce Department said the current account deficit, which measures the flow of goods, services...

addCustomPlayer('1j59v4a9evljr1d1b5hvawowo7', '', '', 600, 418, 'perf1j59v4a9evljr1d1b5hvawowo7', 'eplayer15'); The Angels look like a lost cause, with a 28-38 record, an 11 1/2-game American League West deficit and 9 1/2-game wild-card deficit entering...

* Indian rupee worst hit EM currency after rand since May * Wholesale inflation eases for 4h straight month * Retail inflation still high on elevated food prices * RBI has cut repo rate at every review so far in 2013 By Suvashree Dey Choudhury...