Over the past two years we’ve seen an influx of investment from the federal government, private businesses hoping to get in on the action, and other countries trying to keep up. And now we’re seeing all this money starting to make a difference in the climate tech sector. Before we get...
According to Reuters, President Biden plans to grant further military aid to Ukraine in August or September under the guise of "supplementary spending," which is not restricted by the fiscal act. Despite the federal government grappling with enormous deficits, the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex ...
Past research on the allocation of federal resources to localities has failed to account for the interaction between federal and state governments. Here a sequential-move game of such interaction is developed, where state governments behave like political surrogates for the federal government when they...
In 2021, GovSpend made the strategic decision to acquireFedmine, a leading provider of federal government contracting intelligence. Founded in 2004 by a federal government contractor, Fedmine purpose-built an advanced data platform that would give contractors and agencies decision-quality information der...
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The U.S. federal government’s public debt has skyrocketed to an unprecedented US$35 trillion, smashing the record set just months ago and sending fresh worries to the global market. Data from the U.S. Treasury Department released Monday afternoon local time showed that the gross national debt...
Government spending also helped: It rose at a 2.4% annual pace, the first such increase since early last year, with sharply higher defense spending leading the way. Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26% annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates as the Federal Reserve aggressively ...
Tennessee will count the provisional ballots cast by six people convicted of felonies who had their voting rights recently restored under judges’ rulings Associated PressNov. 20, 2024 As US Ramps up Nuclear Power, Fuel Supplier Plans to Enrich More Uranium Domestically ...
The central bank started raising rates in March 2022 to tamp down surging inflation, caused chiefly by what top economists labeled as profligate US government spending during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Federal Open Market Comm...
‘Last hike of the cycle’: economists predict Federal Reserve is done with interest rate rises The combination of recent data has raised hopes among economists and investors that the central bank will achieve the rare feat of a“soft landing”— bringing inflation under control without significant...