One of the largest departments in the Canadian government told employees they may face job losses as Prime Minister Mark Carney searches for spending cuts to keep the budget deficit contained.

That all came after Trump's plans hit their biggest roadblock yet in court, when late last month the US Court of International Trade ruled that Trump had overstepped his authority when he imposed ...

We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on trading partners to quickly make new deals before a ...

Canada's finance minister has asked all ministries to find savings, assess spending on programs, cut down on work duplication ...

Ten CFR experts break down what the president's trade agenda has accomplished since he placed a ninety-day pause on his ...

The combined U. S. trade deficit with USMCA trade partners Mexico and Canada now exceeds the U.S. deficit with China, ...

Helped by volatile gold shipments, the May deficit was down from a record in April and continued to reflect fluctuating ...

Weak demand in the U.S. for Canadian goods and faltering imports by Canadians helped narrow the country's merchandise-trade deficit in May to 5.86 billion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of about ...

The C.D. Howe Institute predicts Ottawa's recently announced spending plans — which include a much bigger defence budget — ...

But many of the platform’s projections were based on a rosier picture of the economy. Since then, the federal government has committed to more spending, including that Canada would meet its 2014 NATO ...

This leaves deficit financing, which, in Holt’s view, will mean more bond issuance, and Canadians should expect the deficit-to-GDP ratio to rise for an extended period of time. “The Liberal government ...