Non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns of heightened risk of ‘an eventual fiscal crisis’
In a bid to boost manufacturing, the Republican candidate is promising sweeping tariffs. Critics warn they would cause huge damage and heighten global tensions
Former US president courts wealthy suburban voters with pledge to ‘get Salt back’
Nationalist trade policy is rooted in misdiagnosis. There is a more obvious problem
Presidential candidates offer sharp contrasts on tax, trade and how to fix inflation
Democratic candidate offers olive branch to Wall Street with far smaller rise
Proposed expansion of deductions follows pressure on US vice-president to detail her economic plans
Democratic proposal faces long odds but has nevertheless alarmed ultra-wealthy venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and investors
Populist measures designed to win over US voters are less welcome to business and economists
Move designed to increase government revenue would face opposition from business and Republicans
Support for homebuyers and crackdown on price gouging designed to win over inflation-weary voters
An intensification of the trade war with China would come on top of price pressures and high interest rates
Former president’s speech comes as polls show Democratic candidate Kamala Harris gaining ground with voters
Beverage group lured to ‘reverse Yankee’ market by Europe’s low borrowing costs
Kamala Harris won’t have much room to shift from industrial intervention and import tariffs
Republicans made proposal a central talking point in campaign to appeal to working-class voters
Co-ordinated levy on total wealth of super-rich is feasible and enforceable, says paper commissioned for G20
US bank seeks to take share of business from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
US conservatives are moving away from the old orthodoxy on how to balance deficits and revenues
President seeks to fight Trump on economy with progressive plan to make the very rich pay more
Majority of justices uphold Trump-era levy but avoids broader constitutional questions that some had pushed
Peterson Institute says poorest Americans will suffer most if Republican wins election and raises levies as promised
What once seemed like an impossibility is now being considered by G20 finance ministers
Oil companies, banks, private equity and others partner with renewables developers to offset liabilities
Higher interest rates and inflation undercut allure of tax-advantaged Opportunity Zones
