Revenue deficit is a key indicator of the governments fiscal health. A high revenue deficit suggests that the government is borrowing not to invest, but to fund routine consumption.

From infrastructure spending to interest rates, fiscal deficit influences some of the biggest economic outcomes of the Union Budget. Heres a simple five-question guide to understanding why it matters.

Washington is running its largest peacetime budget deficit in American history. The national debt held by the public has leaped from 40 percent of the economy in 2008 to 100 percent today—on its way ...

I started teaching introductory economics as a graduate student in 1970. At that point, it was popular to help college sophomores understand economic principles by destroying myths that equated the ...

California’s economic output has surpassed $4 trillion a year and in doing so slipped past Japan to become, were it a nation, the globe’s fourth largest economy, surpassed only by the United States, ...

As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present the Union Budget 2026, attention is centred on five critical ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Office of Economic Analysis released the state’s economic and revenue forecast for December 2025 on Wednesday — showing mixed reviews for the state amid an infusion ...