Debt

This past Columbus Day, I took my wife and kids to a pumpkin patch. While we had a good time, what struck us was the cost of the whole thing. Admission alone cost us $60 plus tax. If we weren’t so frugal, we could have easily spent another…

In his State of the Union message in February, President Biden bragged that his “administration cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion — the largest deficit reduction in American history.” That boast lasted barely six months. Biden’s…

While the press and the American people focused on the Justice Department’s latest indictment of President Trump, another no less significant event was taking place on Tuesday afternoon. Specifically, Fitch Ratings announced it had…

Start SlideshowPresident Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 of some Americans’ student loans has inspired widespread political debate. The Onion fact-checks claims about Biden’s plan and student loan debt in…

As it has often had to do over the past several years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a report illustrating the fiscal problems looming dead ahead for the United States. Its most recent analysis, an annual report…

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in federally backed student loan debt, a decision that means millions will have to start making student loan repayments later…

The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s plans to offer a taxpayer-funded bailout to millions of student loan borrowers without congressional approval. In a 6-3 decision handed down at the end of the summer term Friday, the high…

The old lawyers’ adage instructs that “if you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.” The adage aptly describes how…

President Joe Biden’s recent budget for fiscal year 2024 comes with a glaring contradiction hiding in plain sight. To wit, the policies pursued by “Middle Class Joe” — a sobriquet that The Washington Post notes Biden bestowed upon himself —…

WASHINGTON—Awake until the wee hours of the morning carefully crafting the policy, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s mother was forced to stay up all night devising a plan to combat student debt, sources reported Thursday. “Wait, you…